Re: Digital Film backup
Title: Re: Digital Film backup
I agree that losing most of what we shoot is not a bad thing.
Every five years or so I go through my work and discard about 90% of
it.
However, if I were going to archive important work that was
captured on digital I would not do so on Ektachrome since the dyes are
not permanent. It would be much better to make color separations on
B&W pan film. You could capture more detail than is in most
digital prints with 120 or 220 film and 6X7 or 6X9 format.
Sandy
At 8:53 AM -0400 6/9/07, sam wang wrote:
Sandy,
To make 4x5 Ektachromes from digital
files is no problem. Here's a company that does it: http://www.ezslides.com/4x5.htm
The problem is cost. At $40 a
transparency, how many can you afford? Then you'd have to worry about
mold that loves slides, especially in the South.
On the other hand, I don't think losing
most of what we shoot is a bad thing, unless they have historical
value. Reminds me of a beginning art student who insisted on keeping
his initial work forever...
Sam
On Jun 9, 2007, at 12:47 AM, Sandy King
wrote:
Mark,
That may be so. In my own case I have it
covered since I use only film.
For others, there is always film. I could
think of several types of systems to archive digital on film. I am
surprised that none are available commercially.
Might be a good commercial enterprise to
set this up? There is absolutely a need, because whatever you
are doing digitally will be lost. That you can count on.
Sandy
At 12:29 AM -0400 6/9/07, Ender100@aol.com wrote:
Sandy,
I haven't yet seen a system that has the resolution, a reasonable
price & is artifact free to be able to handle this.
Furtunately I do have a lot of 35 mm negatives too.
Best Wishes,
Mark Nelson
Precision Digital Negatives -
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In a message dated 6/8/07 3:28:24 PM, sanking@clemson.edu writes:
I would suggest that if you fellows want true archival back-up of your
digital files you better have them printed on film while film is still
available. In some cases you might even save space.
Unless one is very systematic in moving files from one generation
storage device to the next, and I suspect that very few of us are, the
files are going to eventually be lost. That is one of the major
reasons I continue to do all of my work on film, even though I scan
and print mostly from digital files.
Sandy King
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