Digital BW, The Print

Oooh...I wasn't going to get involved in this discussion but I  
couldn't resist....

I, personally,  do not trust digital files to last beyond our years.  
We still don't know if CDs, DVDs, hard drives or anything prone to  
magnetic damage will last. Some already aren't. Then there IS the  
reality of what technology will exist, what readers will be able to  
read these, and will anyone really be backing stuff up all their  
lives, etc without accidentally deleting something?

Negatives are tangible. The image is right there in your hands to  
see. You don't need a print to know what you have.  For me,  that is  
the only evidence of my photographic work that I know will still be  
around. And once my husband and I go, there is no kin, so I better  
get these negatives to the Museum of Modern Art pronto :D

PS - Off thread -  I made my first acrylic transfers from Zeus'  
prints today (sorry, that is what I named my R2400).  The acrylic  
didn't seem to lay on the same way as the previous inks, probably  
because of the dyes, but I will see once I soak them what happens.

AnnMarie

AnnMarie Tornabene
www.annmarietornabene.net




On Jan 2, 2008, at 6:40 PM, djon43 wrote:

> IMO the ONLY infinitely "archival" photo product is our digital file,
> and that will remain beautiful as long as neither we nor our kin don't
> fail to back-up and copy properly onto whatever digital medium becomes
> the new reliable standard following reliance on backed up/distributed
> HDs or, arguably/dubiously, DVDs






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