Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/09

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Subject: [Leica] Media Life--NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Sun Jan 9 17:14:26 2005
References: <NEBBJDFBIKOBILIKPPBNEEFFBAAB.red735i@earthlink.net> <CD199438-6265-11D9-8156-000A95DD7D76@charter.net>
 
Bits don't change or decay. What is 10010111001010101110010 today will be 
that forever. So if your digital images are decayed, it's not because the 
files have changed. It's because some aspect of the processing that you did 
to the files has changed.

> I treat my digital files as ephemeral, hence disposable.

Whereas I know that my digital files will outlast every other possession 
that I have, and will be the primary legacy that I leave to yet-unborn 
progeny. Bits are forever. The medium on which the bits are recorded might 
not be forever, but that is a separate problem.

My film and prints and books and letters will rot away in a few hundred 
years. My digital files are forever.
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