Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

How many billions of neg & chrome on earth ? To take your way of thinking, do you believe they will stop producing scanners or some other tool to read those negs ? Human memory is in neg and just for you to realise that, why do you think Bill Gates has invested so much in making the most giant pictures storage on earth buying all images banks he could find ?
Up to now films & scanners are still available and I bet they will for a long time still....may be digital will gone by then  :-)

Cheers
Michel
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Kale 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:45 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: how many REALLY do store digital copies elsewhere


  There is absolutely no way that all those thousands of people with all those
  millions of dollars at stake will allow today's population of digital images
  to be unreadable in the future.  That is not to say that you won't have to
  convert them at some point, perhaps either to a new storage medium or to a
  different data format.  To do so will be your responsibility.  BUT such a
  path will always be available for RAW digital image data.  Think about it,
  do you think Adobe or its successor would allow this to happen - no - there
  is too much at stake.  If anything the risk is the other way around.
  Digital data is very mutable.  You might rather find that in 25 years they
  no longer make scanners and you will be digging in the antique shops to find
  one so you can play catch up.



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