Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aram, Long article in Scientific American, published a couple of years back on the subject of archival nature of digital, made your very point. Yes we can save everything in TIFF or JPEG format. But, I have a meaninful bitmap file on a 5.25 inch floppy. You never know which way the digital wind will blow over time. Some photographs sure can gain value and meaning with time. Way back in 1994 (seems like only yesterday) I had to give a presentation to a group of accountants about this new phenomenon known as the World Wide Web. I wanted to do a live presentation, but didn't trust the connection I had, and it took too long for pages to load over a 14K modem anyway. Several nights before the presentation I surfed the web and photographed -- using my M6 and DR Summiron -- the pages I wanted. I was able to frame surprisingly well. I put the slides in an Extragraphic projector and the presentation went off without a hitch. I still have those slides, about 100 in all. I looked at them the other day and they were a hoot! I'd almost forgotton that old "Yahoo look". I'd also done a search on the word "accounting" on Yahoo, the premier search engine of the day. Guess how many hits I got? Just over 300! To me that's a page in history. And I've got it on film! Dave At 06:06 AM 4/28/2002 -0700, you wrote: >I've been saying this for years. I have a ton of digital files of papers my >students have submitted. I moved them from floppy to CD about 8 years ago. >There are quiet a few that, while the files are in great shape, there is no >way to read them. The software used 10-15 years ago just doesn't exist >anymore. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html