Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My shoeboxes are hopelessly muddled, too...but I will love them forever! Robert Clark Lancaster, PA ----- Original Message ----- From: "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 5:44 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] PAW from the Analog Trashheap > Doug has articulated the most important issue. > That's the fundamental shift that has happened after capture. > Family photographers with a little digital P&S may well take a lot of > photos > at Auntie Mabel's wedding, but may only get prints made of a few. > > Print those digital files as well as archive the files. > > Cheers > Hoppy > Owner of a thousand shoeboxes, most of which are hopelessly muddled. > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Douglas Herr > Sent: Tuesday, 15 August 2006 03:07 > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW from the Analog Trashheap > > Phil Swango wrote: > >>Jim Shulman wrote: >>>My biggest complaint about digital imaging is that we will likely lose >>>the >>>"shoebox" to the ages--no tangible receptacle, like an old shoebox, for >>>prints or negatives. What's the likelihood that ephemeral digital images >>>will survive? Not bloody likely, unless you're a computer expert like >>Brian >>>and copy all your work regularly. >> >>You are so right. Last week someone in my family drug out a box of oldies >>and we passed them around over dinner. What a great experience for my >>daughter and the rest of us. How many stories came to mind. How many >>memories awakened. Copying all your files to storage won't even begin to >>fill the role of a few drugstore snaps passed around the table. Pictures >>you can hold in your hand and whose physical condition bears witness to >>the >>passing of time. > > A dissenting viewpoint - we don't pass negatives around, and many people > are > as careless with film negative storage as with digital. As long as prints > are made from digital negatives with reasonably good technology, i.e., > RA-4 > paper/chem, or archival inks, they'll hold up in a shoebox just as well as > prints from film negatives. > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information