[rollei_list] Re: Film/Digital
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:06:30 -0400
At 01:54 AM 10/17/2011, william schillereff wrote:
"Film will never completely disappear, just as black-and-white never
disappeared. But whatever supposed advantages you can think of for
film, digital will eventually catch up and surpass it"
There are moods and shades which digital cannot touch at this
point. Black and white film is an art form of its own and I doubt
it will be surpassed by the electronic age. The swiftness of its
growth is also the seed if its destruction because it will grow so
fast those with archived images will lose them as it moves like a
prairie fire. For both the professional artist and the home snapper
this is tragic and has proved true at one time or another for all of
us. At this point the neuances film over digital leaves electronic
media and the age of mediocracy. It certainly is becoming an art
form of its own and may continue in that direction for a long
time. And I add, "I hope."
I'm not certain that this is true. The danger is not loss of the
hardware to translate a given format as the risk of the images
degrading during electronic storage, a matter solved by regular
backing up of some sort. I started on computers in the punch-card
days and moved up the chain along the way, and data was always
transferable by some means or other. I know a couple of folks who
still have working 8" floppies (remember those? They made great
frisbies when times were slow at work ... ) and I keep a 3.5" in my
desktop, which lacks, for that matter, a DVD deck, though my wife's
desktop in the next room has one if I should ever need to use it.
People who want to take a few simple steps can ensure that their
pictures will be preserved for their lifetimes. I ended up as a
repository of family pictures from my mother's side of the house, so
I have a large box full of faded prints in odd sizes of people
probably unknown to anyone now living. (Someday in the next several
years, a few of us will sit down and go over the pictures and
identify who we can, and then my son will become the Deposit Holder
of Record.)
Marc
It is a good world for doing good deeds.
-- Nathaniel the Faun
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