Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/19

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Subject: [Leica] Film is Archival
From: Martin Krieger <krieger@usc.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:20:28 -0700
References: <200306191743.KAA23887@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

Whatever else, at least at the present, film is the archival medium. You
cannot put your CD or DVD away for 75 years, not tend to it much, and expect
that it will be easy to use at that time. Standards will change, get much
much better, and legacy equipment is likely to become scarcer. Film and
prints sit there in the cool, dry, dark and don't do much. For my purposes,
which is developing an archive of images, film (Kodachrome) is still the
preferred way.

I realize this may be a small minority concern.

Most people want snapshots or pictures for newspapers, etc.  They are
concerned about the future, to be sure, but that is not their main concern.

By the way, much the same argument applies to books vs. e-Books etc. Books
just sit there, especially if the paper is not too reactive. Copying was the
means of preservation a long time ago, but when the monks get busy with
other things...

And if we want to have pictures available 500 years from now (think
Renaissance), the medium might well be oil paint on canvas, printed books,
or a ceramic image.

MK

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