Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Whatever else, at least at the present, film is the archival medium. You cannot put your CD or DVD away for 75 years, not tend to it much, and expect that it will be easy to use at that time. Standards will change, get much much better, and legacy equipment is likely to become scarcer. Film and prints sit there in the cool, dry, dark and don't do much. For my purposes, which is developing an archive of images, film (Kodachrome) is still the preferred way. I realize this may be a small minority concern. Most people want snapshots or pictures for newspapers, etc. They are concerned about the future, to be sure, but that is not their main concern. By the way, much the same argument applies to books vs. e-Books etc. Books just sit there, especially if the paper is not too reactive. Copying was the means of preservation a long time ago, but when the monks get busy with other things... And if we want to have pictures available 500 years from now (think Renaissance), the medium might well be oil paint on canvas, printed books, or a ceramic image. MK - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html