[Leica] PAW from the Analog Trashheap

[nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)]

But is this really that different from the "old days"? I remember back 
in the 70s, during my teenage years (before I took up photography in a 
serious way), when we had a roll of film processed, we would usually 
throw away not only the negatives, but also the prints that had not 
"come out" well--in fact, the latter prints did not even make it out of 
the store, since standard practice was the you only had to pay for the 
"good" prints.

Nathan

G Hopkinson wrote:
> Doug has articulated the most important issue.
> That's the fundamental shift that has happened after capture.
> Family photographers with a little digital P&S may well take a lot of 
> photos
> at Auntie Mabel's wedding, but may only get prints made of a few.
>
> Print those digital files as well as archive the files.
>
> Cheers
> Hoppy
> Owner of a thousand shoeboxes, most of which are hopelessly muddled.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Douglas Herr
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 August 2006 03:07
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW from the Analog Trashheap
>
> Phil Swango wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> A dissenting viewpoint - we don't pass negatives around, and many people 
> are
> as careless with film negative storage as with digital.  As long as prints
> are made from digital negatives with reasonably good technology, i.e., RA-4
> paper/chem, or archival inks, they'll hold up in a shoebox just as well as
> prints from film negatives.
>
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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