Re: =?UNKNOWN?B?T1Q6oA==?= corrupted .NEF files

[Robert Peterson <petersonrbrt@yahoo.com>]

There seems to be a bit of a knowledge lag here. Digital is very much involved in film production. That's because it is cheaper to use digital processing in many aspects of film production. It is quite possible that film is used to archive the final product.

Greg Schmitz <gws1@columbia.edu> wrote:
> FWIW, at a session at the most recent meeting of the American Moving
> Image Archivists Association (AMIA) Kodak discussed its'
> investigations into marketing FILM as a long term storage medium for
> DIGITAL data.
>
> At the same session a representative from, as I recall, Warner
> Bros. (who also claimed WB is the largest consumer of film in the
> world) pointed out that WB requires all digital visual elements to be
> broken down to RGB and then archived in the WB vaults on BW film
> stock; WB and other film companies routinely refer to
>  their archived
> materials as "assets." Perhaps the motion picture industry, which has
> steadfastly resisted attempts to get them to go digital (digital costs
> more to shoot and store and most seem to feel digital does not look as
> good as film) is a few steps ahead of still photographers when it
> comes to a "practical" view of digital vs. film; not sure? Oh, the
> guy from WB noted that film was the most practical way to store images
> because all you have to do to retrieve the image is look at it.
>
> -greg schmitz
>
>
>
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Ender100@aol.com wrote:
>
> > they call them film recorders hehehehe but it would be really expsensive and
> > time consuming....multiple backups are cheaper and faster.
> >
> > Mark Nelson
> >
> > In a message dated 11/8/06 8:00:02 AM, Keith@GumPhoto.com writes:
> >
> >
> >> I wish someone would invent a device that could convert digital captures to
> >> images
>  and save them safely onto 35mm film.  Now THAT would be nice!   ;-D
> >>
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> > Mark Nelson
> > Precision Digital Negatives
> > PDNPrint : Precision Digital Negatives
> > Mark I. Nelson Photography
> >