Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/14

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Subject: [Leica] PAW from the Analog Trashheap
From: pswango at att.net (Phil Swango)
Date: Mon Aug 14 09:33:47 2006

Jim Shulman wrote:
>My biggest complaint about digital imaging is that we will likely lose the
>"shoebox" to the ages--no tangible receptacle, like an old shoebox, for
>prints or negatives.  What's the likelihood that ephemeral digital images
>will survive?  Not bloody likely, unless you're a computer expert like
Brian
>and copy all your work regularly.

You are so right.  Last week someone in my family drug out a box of oldies
and we passed them around over dinner.  What a great experience for my
daughter and the rest of us.  How many stories came to mind.  How many
memories awakened.  Copying all your files to storage won't even begin to
fill the role of a few drugstore snaps passed around the table.  Pictures
you can hold in your hand and whose physical condition bears witness to the
passing of time.

-- 
Phil Swango
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