[Leica] The Problem with Digital Files

[Afterswift@aol.com]

Properly washing and storing film so that it will last for hundreds of years
isn't a trivial task.  If you properly archive and maintain digital files,
they'll last forever, too.  Won't even lose anything when you make copies of
the original so you can store them in multiple locations.
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The problem with digital files is that they're digital files. First off, they 
come out of the camera with fleas -- artifacts. Then those artifacts are 
corrected by the artifacts concocted by someone bustling around in PhotoShop. 
Then those approximations of a photo are burned into a CD that encapsulates 
the illusion. 
Five or ten years later those CDs are inaccessible because some outfit came 
out with other media that obsoletes everything that went before. Then you 
must pay a fortune to find some outfit that saved all that old hardware so 
you can take a look at the old artifacts again. And the whole business begins 
all over again.

I have negatives from 1911 that print as well as they ever did. And those 
negs keep me honest. 

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