Frank Roggeband wrote
>As an employee in the photo-finishing division of Kodak, Stick with film;-).
>Eventually we will be tearing out our nasty chemicals for racks and racks
>of hard drives, printing on glossy with a dry process, but for now film
>is the superior media. Don't get me wrong though, digital cameras have their
>place too for conveniece but until inkjet or colour laser printer technology
>improves nothing beats a real photo. Now a digital camera image printed with
>a crt printer onto photograpic paper... pretty damn good too.
Pardon the off topic soap-box time, but...
If there's anything you want to actually look at in 10 years, stick
to film!
Howmany of you out there have 760k floppies you can't read or worse tons
of work done on Ataris Amigas, Amstrads and other defunct
platforms...lost forever. Take a neg or slide taken with your dad with
his argus camera during WWII to the photo lab, and you can get copies, no
problem.
As a rule of thumb, B/W is the most stable (lasts centuries) Slide
film, properly stored, is pretty good, may last 100 years if it's
Kodachrome (Frank, can you still get Kodachrome?) Unfortunately color
Negative film's life can be measured in decades.
I'm lazy, I use digital camera for web-based stuff, and color neg
film in general, but when a project turns out well, or seems important
(like when my roadster was completed about a decade ago, I use slide film.
-Marc T.
Off the soapbox.
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