[Leica] WAS: Nathan's PAW 31: NOW: Digital ARCHIVING

[aalmansi at yahoo.com (Aquiles Almansi)]

Ted,

I regularly "record" to slides many of the digital
files I have obtained by scanning film at 4000 ppi and
editing with PS. Exactly as you have observed, this
adds an extra film-based copy of the "final" image,
which can be expected to outlast any digital copy.
There is no, however, such a thing as a free lunch:
when one records a digital image on film, one is
adding at least one extra step in the reproduction
chain leading to the final print, with the consequent
loss in quality (similarly to what happens when one
makes a copy of an original slide).

best regards,

--- Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Nathan said:
> > The archiving issue is one I have thought a lot
> about. Right now, my
> images reside on the internal hard disk in the
> computer and a backup copy is
> on an external Firewire hard disk which is only on
> when things are being
> written to it. Once I have enough data to fill a DVD
> I do another backup
> onto a DVD.<<<
> 
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> Question re: Archiving digital?
> 
> When we're producing Leica Seminar slide
> presentations using B&W images of
> which we have many already in the computer scanned
> at 4000. We then size
> these to 35mm frame, make corrections and burn to a
> CD. Take them to the lab
> where they make absolutely beautiful B&W 35mm
> slides.  On film!
> 
> So digital archiving aspect?
> 
> As we know at the moment, film has greater archived
> life span than digital
> and that being the case, why not save the finest of
> our digital photographs
> in similar fashion? Burn them to CD and have film
> "negatives " made as we
> make positive slides?
> 
> Then we have the archival value of a film negative
> as well as a digital on
> CD, DVD, whatever? Being the rookie I am in all this
> digital stuff maybe
> I've completely overlooked the main point why this
> wont work. Because surely
> a much smarter person than I would've come up with
> it a long time ago.
> 
> So would or would it not work as an archival
> possibility? And if not, why
> not?
> 
> ted
> 
> 
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