[pure-silver] Re: Film vs Digital- was: Amusing Kodak commercial
- From: afterswift@xxxxxxx
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:26:43 -0500
Speedy,
In addition to everything you mentioned, the very reason for this list is the
negative.
Digitals don't produce negatives. Digital over the long haul is a "luft" or
evaporating medium. No one can vouch for the genesis of a digital image beyond
a lifetime. I don't even trust a news shot in the NYT, and The Times has strict
standards for publishing a digital photo.
Bob
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From: speedgraphic@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 11:16 AM
Subject: [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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