Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/07

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Slide Preservation
From: kwilcox@mail.davison.k12.mi.us (Ken Wilcox)
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 10:50:22 -0400

In my garage is a box of sound recordings -- archived on wire. I don't know
what is on them. What is the chance of me going to considerable expense to
have them converted?

Same problem with digital photo recording.

Ken Wilcox


At 6:13 AM -0800 2/7/0, Gib Robinson wrote:
>Maybe I missed a bit of the Kodachrome/E6 debate but I didn't hear any
>mention of photo CD's as a way to preserve slides you want to keep. Whatever
>the life span of current E6 is, there are still many ways to lose slides
>besides the aging process. Now we have pretty good digital means to preserve
>them. For around $2.00 per image you can get a digital file that will
>produce a good print up to 8x10. For about $15 you can get a BIG file for
>big prints. Those prices will clearly drop. Since disk storage is pretty
>cheap and getting cheaper, you can transfer those CD images to a hard
>drive/JAZ drive, optical disk or whatever and keep them around for many
>years.
>

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