[Leica] One of the advantages of digital

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

>I have just been scanning some old transparencies for submission to a
>stock agency, and it is isn't until you scan them and then zoom in
>closer in Photoshop that you realize just how dirty they get. Mine are
>all stored in hanging sleeves in a filing cabinet, but even so they take
>a lot of spotting. What a great advantage on this front digital capture
>is. Apart from maybe a spot of dust on the sensor (which is always in
>the same place if there at all) there is no spotting to do :-D which has
>saved me literally hours of work!
>Gerry

Gerry
I have scanned some slides my father made in the mid-50ies in Corea and 
Japan, the colors were fading, the slides dusty - but at least those 
pictures "survived" 50 years. So let's hope our digital storage medias will 
live as long, too.
Didier