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Subject: [Leica] Re: On Both Sides now how long will it last
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Thu Jan 31 14:15:33 2008
References: <C3C78C63.882B5%mark@rabinergroup.com> <033101c86448$24205220$0202a8c0@MacPhisto>

I can see it now....Uh, what kinda rock do you use?

Christopher Williams wrote:
> Did anyone catch "Life After People" on the History Channel?
>
> Negatives will return to gelatin in 200 years, and paper will be eaten 
> by bacteria. No one will be around to look at a digital file and there 
> will be no electricity so either way just enjoy the shite now! That or 
> start doing what our ancestors did and carve your photos in rock, we 
> know that last thousands of years!
>
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner"Subject: Re: [Leica] 
> On Both Sides
>
>
>> >From the first moment your print or neg or slide dries after 
>> processing it
>> is deteriorating. Its never the same. And always worse than it was 
>> the last
>> time your printed it. Or looked at it.
>> But if its black and white film stored well it maybe highly 
>> incremental but
>> still.... Its there. Its oxidizing or otherwise turning to dust just 
>> like we
>> all are.
>> How fresh was that fix?
>> How cold was that wash:
>> Worry. Lots of variables. Lots of things to worry about.
>>
>> Digital information though does not in any way no matter how much 
>> enlarger
>> light you try to shoot through it deteriorate.
>> It prints just as well in the year 2525 as it did in 2001.
>>
>> Where will YOUR NEGS BE in the year 2525? And what condition will 
>> they be
>> in?
>> Do I have nostalgia for things which are fading? Sure- But I have more
>> feelings for the imagery I'm creating now which is here to stay.  
>> Stuck in
>> time. More serious.
>> Makes me try harder.
>> Seems like less baloney.
>> And I have it right here. Its not in a storage bin in Portland OR.
>>
>> Digital is very enabling.
>>
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> markrabiner.com
>
>
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Replies: Reply from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Re: On Both Sides now how long will it last)
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