Digital BW, The Print

Arlene,
Wow.. That's a pretty hard line approach.. I'm not suggesting that you stop what your doing but I would just like to toss a few considerations out there for you to just look at. I do a fair amount of work for museums and I have been exposed at one time or other to pretty much everything. 
Anyway first things first.. the slides that you haven't scanned yet..  If their in slide pages that are exposed to light as in a note book that out.. change that to dark storage.. Also some of the slide pages were done with not appropriate materials .. and they outgas ..right on your film.. Might be worth checking out. I have been shooting slides and film for over 40 years and it's always been kept in a dry dark room in the basement.. I have in excess of 300k slides and even the old kodachrome still looks fairly good all things considered.

As far as cd's or DVD's lasting 300 years and our being able to count on that.. simply put "when pigs fly" I say.. Someone needs to prove it.. and they can't. Further , by then the technology will be obsolete.

As far as the slides your pitching.. Digital technology is still changing so fast it's scary.. I have software today that does an incredible job restoring old faded and screwed up images.. five years ago this stuff was just not available.. What I'm trying to say is that as time goes on more software with much improved analytical ability will be developed.. So what we have today is not as far as we can go.. So possibly just hanging on to those slides,  at least the cream of them, might not be a bad way to go. Just store them differently.

Note all the old black and white movies that have been colorized.. They looked exactly like they were hand painted or something back when.. The ones done in the past year actually are pretty awesome.. Technology is still moving pretty fast.. 

Anyway just thoughts..

jimbo

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: arlenelove3@... 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 10:41 AM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: CD/DVD failure?


    
  I'm storing my images on archival gold discs - (supposedly good for 300 
  years) and also on hard drives. The old slides are useless, even though they 
  were kept in archival hanging slide pages. The colors have gone weird, and 
  they need a lot of cleaning up. 
  As I scan and repair each group of slides and store them on discs and hd, 
  the slides go right in the trash can. I think it's all a craps shoot - 
  except for paper.
  Arlene 

  Arlene Love
  arlenelove3@... 
  _www.arlenelove.com_ (http://www.arlenelove.com/) 
  Tel: 215 923 2363

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