Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jonathan Borden wrote: ><Snip> > Can you imagine if e.g. Monet considered paint with a 100 year life > "archival"? 100 years is the base minimum and itself not adequate for > serious archiving. When my wife gets annoyed that I take family 'snapshots' > using Kodachrome, and hence double 4x6 prints aren't readily available, I > remind her that our grandchildren's grandchildren's grandchildren will be > thrilled having our cibachromes. We recently spent about $500 restoring an > otherwise mundane pair of drawings c. 1890 which were *owned* by her > grandmother let alone created by or depicting anyone in her family. It is > hard to predict what the value of something will become. Hopefully the > medium of photography will continue to be used as a way to depict our > society in a realistic fashion. > > Jonathan Borden 200 is the number that somebody picked out of a hat for the official Archival tag a few years back I think. Let's see you set the little microwave Archival timer for 200, hit the button Ding! the year 2525; is that a coffee stain or… Mark :-) Rabiner