Well, pigment ink jet prints are already far more permanent than our chemical colour photos, and perhaps even more long-lived than our silver prints and negatives. Besides, it's such a hassle doing separations.... Happy New Year, tOM On Sunday, December 31, 2006 at 12:48, afterswift@xxxxxxx <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrot > Long before I bought a digital camera, I was scanning film prints > and distributing those image files on the Net. And had a solid > negative record to boot. There is no excuse for not using film > cameras digitally and B&W processing for permanence. > > Bob -- Quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur -- ,__@ tOM Trottier _-\_<, 758 Albert St., Ottawa ON Canada K1R 7V8 (*)/'(*) N45.41235 W75.71345 +1 613 860-6633 <a href="http://Abacurial.com";>Abacurial Information Architecture</a> Q, Q, </ </ This world, after all our science and sciences, is still (`-/---/-') a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, ~~@~~~~@~~~~~~ to whosoever will think of it. --Thomas Carlyle ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.