Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ----- Original Message ----- 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 > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html