Digital BW, The Print

Peter,

Now you're getting offensive and exhibiting some really flawed logical 
thinking as well!

Seems you're really on a particular horse here and nothing logical is 
going to change your mind. That's ok - that your'e getting offensive in 
your writing is not!

That it will be easier to scan hundreds of thousands of images on film 
20 - 30 40 years from now is simply ridiculous - you really think the 
film scanners are not going to be obsolete by then? The majority of 
posters here has the opposite opinion of yours..

And, yes, I have a little more faith in the human psychology.

And I am NOT uncle Christer - not to you - not anyone, OK?

You need to temper your writing a little here! To paraphrase your 
ending statement:

It always amazes me how people can be so offensive so easily on lists 
like this!

Christer


			Christer, AKA Christer Rosewell
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	  and to lay bare the soul of his subject." Jousuf Karsh
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On Nov 24, 2004, at 12:56 PM, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Message: 12
>    Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:05:16 -0000
>    From: "Peter Nelson" <pnweb@...>
> Subject: Re: It will make it a lot HARDER for 'em!
>
>
> --- 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

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