Re: Vs: [Leica] Digital vs Film

[Andrew Schroter <schroter@optonline.net>]

My guess is, while there will be a lot of material lost, think of all the
photos taken today that are effectively lost because they're squirreled away
and following generations that don't deem the stuff important just throw
them out or leave the photos in "abandoned old homes" (previous post).

If there's a market demand, someone will figure out how to retrieve them.  I
wouldn't be surprised if there were archival retrieval services available
today.

AGS
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From: "Aram Langhans" <langhans@yakima-wa.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 9:06 AM
Subject: RE: Vs: [Leica] Digital vs Film


> William.
>
> 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.  The newer Mac's don't even have floppy drives (yes you can buy
> attachments).  And at the current rate of change, I think your 50 year
time
> frame will be more like 10 years.  I did convert those files that were
done
> in early versions of Word/Excel Appleworks/MSWorks to a later version of
> Office a few years back and made a new CD, but that took a lot of time.
As
> others have posted, they have taken literally hundreds of thousands of
> digital photos.  Are they going to be able to change them as old formats
> fall out of practice and new ones come into practice?  (GIF to JPEG to...)
> Will they have the time to take new photos when all they are doing is
> converting file after file after file....  Do we save everything as text
or
> raw data?
>
> As I've stated before, I think this age has the most information available
> to it than any other age, and in 50 years I think we well find it has the
> least information available to future historians than any other age.  Lots
> of stuff storred but no way to access it.  Maybe technology will solve
this
> problem, too, but for the short run, watch out.
>
> Aram
>
> PS.  Good thing I also have hard copies.  But the ink????
>
> > Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 20:42:54 -0500
> > From: William Gower <w_gower@sympatico.ca>
> > Subject: RE: Vs: [Leica] Digital vs Film
> > Message-ID: <422141D3-5A49-11D6-A111-00050289F09A@sympatico.ca>
> > References:
> >
> <<large snip>>
> >
> > Are your great-great grandchildren going to be holding one of your
> > digital inkjet prints 100 years from now just because Epson or someone
> > like Henry Wilhelm says you should experience no significant fading
> > under proper storage conditions ?
> >
> > Do you expect that electronic manufacturers will continue to build
> > technology to support the CD and DVD formats 50 years from now, or are
> > they going to be the technological equivalent of the 8 track tape, 45
> > RPM disk or wax cylinder recording ?
> >
> > Digital may be more efficient  = more images. I'm thinking now that
> > digital = the potential for more images lost.
> >
> > My thoughts. I guess only time will tell.
> >
> > William
>
>
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