[pure-silver] Re: Film vs Digital- was: Amusing Kodak commercial

Dana Wrote: (snip)

"My kids prefer online viewable albums - remember, we're talking about
snapshots here - so they don't order prints for every single digital
capture.

Dana"

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The problem of the longivity of the image has not been solved in the digital imaging realm. Hard drives crash, CD-r's go bad or get scratched, and file formats change. Even if you have a readable disk ten years from now there is no guarantee that you will have hardware that can read the disk or software that is backwards compatable enough to interpret and display it...
OK you will say "Yeah, but "remember we are only talking about shapshots here...""
I've seen it happen where what was a snapshot at the time becomes a treasured image at a later time. If that image were not on a medium that is accessable and useable at that point in the future it is - LOST! Given that the cost is not that much diffrent between film and digital especially when you throw in the cost of computers, printers, ink and paper; I can't come up with a good reason to NOT shoot even snapshots on film.
Cost savings on digital items is mostly an illusion (or delusion). An expensive camera becomes completely obsolete in three years - if it even functions at that point. Computers become obsolete at about the same rate and heavily used printers probably about then too! Printer ink is the most expensive fluid on the planet and quality inkjet paper is not cheap either. OK so Costco or whomever willprint them for you at a nominal fee. You still haven't solved the image longivity problem. 

Speedy

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