Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/20

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Film is Archival
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 19:49:13 -0400

Ah, Steve, that black and white from 1908 - which is indeed important,
to you and to others interested in various thing about that time, is
faded? A black and white? ;-)

What we seem to be forgetting is that if preserving your images is
important to us, we will make it a point to transfer them to the storage
media of the moment when the media and moment change.

B. D.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Steve
Unsworth
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 6:35 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Film is Archival


BD, the problem is that for the most part _we_ who take the photographs
don't know what are the important images, that's for others to decide
:-)

I have a very faded photograph of my grandmother and her sisters taken
when she was a small girl in perhaps 1908 or even earlier. To my
grandmother is probably wasn't terribly important, to me it is.

After saying that I took, and filed, about 300 rolls of B&W film
negatives last year, I expect them all to go to landfill when I'm gone.

Steve

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of bdcolen
Sent: 20 June 2003 21:43
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Film is Archival


Uh, hello? All of this discussion of archival media is fascinating, but
would anyone on this list of hobbyists and working pros care to tell us
what loss it would be to the world if some of our images faded a bit or
just plain disappeared...


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