Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > The longevity of these inks matches that of traditional photographic > prints. >> >> Debby Dion >> > > So called 'archival' inkjet inks don't compare to either silver B&W > toned in selenium/gold or Cibachrome/Ilfochrome 'classic' ... and I still > haven't seen an inkjet picture which visually holds a candle to either of > these processes done correctly.... and in terms of archiving, I'd rather > print off a sixty year old negative or like aged Kodachrome any day of the > week rather than a like aged piece of magnetic media, format > incompatibilities aside. Really really really long term archiving on machine > readable media has not yet been done. > > Jonathan Borden Jonathan: Think what you may; the results are quite beautiful as far as artistic quality with Leica glass, traditional developing, nikon supercoolscan 2000, epson stylus 3000 with lyson inks. You are forgetting that it's just a method of printing. I archive exactly as you do. I save my negatives and contact sheets; I wouldn't be terribly upset if my "zip disks" became obsolete. Debby Dion