Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/20
[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 know I'm not a standard guy, but at home I listen music from 78 rpm gramophone with his big and nice brass horn, old vinyl from a extraordinary Linn Sondek, cassettes from a Revox, digital audio tapes, CD from a Denon 2200, and recently computer and DVD. If necessary I can ask my brother for his, authentic, Edison cylinder sound machine...Concerning informatics affair I have old disk readers 5 1/4 " and, of course all the modern stuff including DVD writers. I'm already stealthy recording live sound opera with a portable hard disk "something" in the theatre. So I know I'll be not here in, say thirty years, but some in my family, my grandsons probably, will be able to see the pictures I'm recording in DVDs...Anyway I'm not too worried about it. I use to say that after passing everything that my relatives do not wish for them may be piled in a pyre and put in fire (if they do prefer with me in the top of the pyre). Kind regards Felix PS My relatives in, lets say 200 years, will use stone axes again... - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html