Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Here's a file from ten years ago 2005. The amount of digital fading or corruption of any kind I'd say was hovering around 0.0 to the zeroth power. If this was a color neg it would have faded noticeably as the various color layers would have faded at different times making for not difficult but impossible to print with an enlarger head color crossover. If it was Kodachrome the fading in ten years would have been barely noticble if kept in conditions that a person would like to be in. or a black and white carefully processed and fixed twice, hypo cleared and washed a real long time. That's film. Paper is way less permanent. One print which was fixed a bit weak or washed a bit weak gives off gasses which effects all the other prints in the storage area. Obviously paper fibers are harder to fix, wash and preserve than a plastic film base coated with gelatin emulsion. 3/11/05, 3:00:16 AM, Tree Blossoms Portland Oregon, Nikon D100, 28.0 mm f/1.4D http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/fridayflowers/050311_030016.jpg.h tml Or http://tinyurl.com/mptvugl Digital "fading" 0.000% On 5/14/15 1:32 AM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I work from my digital files from the early 2000's when I started shooting > digital they are in my same folder as my files going to this year. By > year. I > have 14 yearly files labeled by year I've been shooting digital 14 years. > They have not "faded". And by that I'd assume we mean gotten corrupted. As > if > the 0's and 1's got messed up the result would not be subtle. > The sensors were so bad those days one could think that was the case > though. > Digital fading. > > But then again when I processed it now it looks better because the > software is > better and I'm better at using it. I was near clueless on photo crunching > in > 2004. > > Here's one from 11 years ago > Nikon D100 4/1/04, 9:40:24 PM, Fullers Coffee Shop Illuminated with red > neon, > 24.0-85.0 mm f/3.5-4.5D > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/040401_214024.jpg.html > > Or > > http://tinyurl.com/n5wkqco > > > > > On 5/14/15 1:17 AM, "Spencer Cheng" <spencer at aotera.org> wrote: > >> Canadian Archive uses microfiche which are stable for 100+ years (or >> acid-free >> paper for documents). The Canadian census was stored that way. ?was? >> because >> I >> am not sure we have a real census any more. Digital storage is very >> ephemeral. I doubt if most digital storage will last more than 10 years. >> Those >> 1?s randomly change to 0?s far too frequently. I don?t think archivist >> like >> digital media very much. >> Regards, Spencer _______________________________________________ Leica >> Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >> information > > > -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/