Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Christer 
Rosewelll <christerart@m...> wrote:
> Not so WRONGO, Peter
> 
> So, you're telling me - and everybody else - that it will be easier 
for 
> my heirs or whoever get their hands on my work - that it will be 
easier 
> to scan several hundred thousand images - present count - rather 
than 
> transfer the stuff from one system to another?

Yes.      

Because "possible" is easier than "impossible".  That's why I cited 
my father's pictures from 60 years ago.    I had no difficulty 
recovering them, even though none of the various aunts and sisters 
whose hands they passed through did ANYTHING other than just stuff 
them in a drawer or attic.

With YOUR scheme, if anyone breaks the chain and doesn't convert the 
images to the next file format while they still overlap the images 
become lost to posterity.    

You're ignoring human psychology.  People aren't usually interested 
in the recent past.  15 years after you die you'll be lucky to have a 
motivated, tchnically knowledgable heir or descendant who will bother 
to do the appropriate data conversion.    SIXTY years later, when 
somene DOES become interested in old Great Uncle Christer's 
photograhy it will be too late.

> Somehow I don't think it will be so quickly obsolete that
> whoever is in charge of the work won't be able to move 
> it from one storage media to another - and rather easily.

The "WRONGO" in your plan is that you think someone will be "in 
charge".

It always amazes me how people can be so smart about technical stuff 
but have no clue about human nature.