Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Even Digital Memories Can Fade - NY Times article on digital preservation.
"Proponents of paper archiving grow especially vocal when it comes to preserving photographs. If stored properly, conventional color photographs printed from negatives can last as long as 75 years without fading. Newer photographic papers can last up to 200 years.
There is no such certainty for digital photos saved on a hard drive.
Today's formats are likely to become obsolete and future software "probably will not recognize some aspects of that format," Mr. Thibodeau said. "It may still be a picture, but there might be things in it where, for instance, the colors are different.""
From an article in the NY Times about preserving digital files, which of course, includes digital images. I hear what digital only photographers go through to protect their current images, what about once they have 10 or 20 years worth of images. And, preserving them for the ages...
I like my system: 1. put the negatives in a sleeve. 2. put the sleeve in a 3 ring binder. 4. put the 3 ring binder on a shelf.
The thing that's cool about analog photography is that I'm using the same system that I started using when I started photography--how cool is that. I don't have to switch to new inks, operating systems, computer, photoshop, printing software and RIP, etc etc etc.
"Proponents of paper archiving grow especially vocal when it comes to preserving photographs. If stored properly, conventional color photographs printed from negatives can last as long as 75 years without fading. Newer photographic papers can last up to 200 years.
There is no such certainty for digital photos saved on a hard drive.
Today's formats are likely to become obsolete and future software "probably will not recognize some aspects of that format," Mr. Thibodeau said. "It may still be a picture, but there might be things in it where, for instance, the colors are different.""
From an article in the NY Times about preserving digital files, which of course, includes digital images. I hear what digital only photographers go through to protect their current images, what about once they have 10 or 20 years worth of images. And, preserving them for the ages...
I like my system: 1. put the negatives in a sleeve. 2. put the sleeve in a 3 ring binder. 4. put the 3 ring binder on a shelf.
The thing that's cool about analog photography is that I'm using the same system that I started using when I started photography--how cool is that. I don't have to switch to new inks, operating systems, computer, photoshop, printing software and RIP, etc etc etc.
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