Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] archives and scanners?
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:58:17 -0800

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