Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] digital
From: Feliciano di Giorgio <feli@d2.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 15:56:15 -0800
References: <200111072054.fA7Ksq923318@hermes.toad.net> <3BE9C118.A3B39ED7@rabiner.cncoffice.com>

I'm not sold on the whole digital thing, yet.

a) Until they can capture all of the information of a cineon file,
it's not even in the ballpark of what film can handle.

b) I can see why all of the press agencies like AP are going digital.
 They need to beat the clock and their competitors to the front page (or
web page), BUT

c) The archival properties of digital stink. Storage formats and mediums
become obsolete very quickly and the storage media deteriorates
extremely fast compared to film. Then there's the example of the
Lewinski shot, that probaly would have been erased, before it ever got
backed up. It's already harder to get good footage from the Gulf War
than from WWII or even WWI, because lot's of it was shot on Hi8 and the
tapes have begun to flake. Properly stored film will last for hundreds
of years, until it needs to be backed up.


cheers,

feli
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