Re: Digital Film backup

[Sandy King <sanking@clemson.edu>]

Title: Re: Digital Film backup

That would work for monochrome.

But for color the least expensive route appears to be the color separations on B&W film.

Sandy

At 8:03 PM -0400 6/9/07, Ender100@aol.com wrote:

> You could print a large format digital negative with
> an inkjet a lot cheaper... hehehehe
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> In a message dated 6/9/07 2:56:02 PM, sanking@clemson.edu writes:
> > 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.
> >
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> > 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
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