Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>You do what our paper is doing. Put them on CDs. That's a format that will >be useful for years. DVD can read them. And to make copes if disks will >probably become common in the future. Dumping the info form CDs to the next >generation stuff. Eric, I'm curious. Do they save everything, or just pick the best shots to archive? To be honest, I would probably not bother to archive a lot of the shots that I take, if I used a digital camera, but if I have them on film I don't throw them away. Then again, I don't flatter myself that I'm doing things of historical importance. One of the things I mentioned was that in the future, some shots you might throw away now might have value later. Once, when I worked at GE, one of the photographers there and I prepared some graphics for a trade show, using a digital camera and taking shots at the show itself to be used a few hours later. It was a tremendous ammount of fun to do this, and be able to pull the images up on the computer right away, without waiting for processing and scanning. I fully understand the appeal of digital, I just feel that we might be in danger of loosing important images, or of having historical events documented with a low resolution format. - - Paul