Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, arlenelove3@... wrote:
>
> 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
>

Don't throw the originals out. Keep them and freeze them! Better technologies
will extract more information from them as time goes by. To stop film
degradation in it's tracks, you need to freeze the slides or negatives. Although
it takes some thoughtful effort, it's not as hard as it sounds. Check out the
freezer storage kit available from Hollinger Metal Edge corporation:
http://www.hollingermetaledge.com/modules/store/index.html?dept=21&cat=48&search\
name=freezer&searchid=&searchtype=C&cart=1297475351689658

And an article on cold storage packaging of film at:

http://www.aardenburg-imaging.com/cgi-bin/mrk/_4261ZGxkLzBeMTAwMDAwMDAwMTIzNDU2N\
zg5LyoyMg==

The point is that you can keep original films in a state of "suspended
animation" and digitize with superior results as new methods become available
for better and better results.

kind regards,
Mark
http://www.aardenburg-imaging.com