Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry queries: "Where did Luggers get the idea that the academic community is against digital?" I agree. Even among historians -- digital, digital, digital. We're in love with our email, our e-journals, our online library searches, our online archives, etc and so on. Except. Except that I recently had the sad task of packing up my mother's home, after she moved into assisted living. I came across box after box of my late father's slides. Almost all Kodachrome, many over 55 years old (including slides of USO shows during the Korean War, starring an instantly recognizable Danny Kaye). It felt as though our family's entire history was on those chromes. And, being Kodachrome, they were perfectly preserved. It was as if they'd been processed yesterday. To see them -- about 3,000 -- all I had to do was to hold them up to the light. It was a profoundly moving experience. How likely is it that someone a generation or two from now will have the same experience with 50 year old digital photo files? (Prints, of course, are different.) BTW, I could also read many of my father's sermons. At least those that he wrote on his typewriter. Quite a few are on 5 and a quarter disks and were created in Wordstar. Will I ever read them? I can't honestly say. --John ****************************** John Edwin Mason, Photography: http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com Charlottesville and Cape Town