Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]De Stephen Gandy <leicanikon@earthlink.net>, le dimanche 12 d?cembre 2004 ? 23:16 GMT : >the only way I know of to really safeguard that valued digital print is to >make a silver neg copy of the digital print. in silver I trust the future, >not digital. someday maybe, but not now. I am open to other solutions, >but I won't believe unproved claims of estimated life spans of digital >prints and digital storage mediums. Stephen, This may be true with B&W. Color is a different story. To my knowledge, the only way to keep that colour print is probably to make a dye-transfer (only a few dye-transfer craftsmen left, one of them is Ctein <http://ctein.com/>) or maybe a Cibachrome print. Some photographers have "Fresson-prints" made, it's a colour carbon-transfer print <http://www.atelier-fresson.com/home.htm>. "Normal" color prints, even the fancy, expensive ones made at a pro-lab, just fade away or at least change color over time. Color negs and E6 are subject to the same changes, but it probably takes longer because you're not supposed to expose them to direct sunlight... All the Best! Tarek --------------------------------------- Tarek Charara <http://www.pix-that-stimulate.com>