[Leica] Digital academia

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> Most of the slides and photos from my childhood, my parents childhood, 
> etc.,
> are still readable, if not in excellent condition.  Even that non-archival
> Seattle Filmworks crap.  None of which has had any fancy, archival storage,
> just thrown in a box to be forgotten about.
> 
> Digital backup is wonderful.  Very few people do it correctly.


A nice thing about scanning color film is as the various layers of the film
has aged differently and you are getting color shifts because of that that
can be corrected with Photoshop or the scanning software to near perfection
83.8 percent of the time.  You can even get them looking better than they
ever looked.
Kodachrome can seem to be impervious to ageing but if left in the wrong
conditions will go down the tubes just like any other color media.

Any film or print does not get better and better in every day in every way.
They get worse every day in every way. Its organic material in most cases.
Digital stays exactly the same.

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Mark William Rabiner