Digital BW, The Print

I very much doubt that your situation is the norm.


> From: "Anthony G. Atkielski" <anthony@...>

> My parents actually have negatives of photos of me, from infancy
> onwards.  And when I scan them today, they look a hundred times better
> than they did when they got drugstore prints of those negatives decades
> ago.  One of the advantages of film was that it stored a huge amount of
> information, even before there was an economical way to extract it.  I
> scanned some 40-year-old Tri-X negatives (from a shoebox!) not long ago,
> and they looked like they had been shot yesterday.
> 
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