m1gunner
US Veteran
My wife's grandfather was a Army Photographer in the Great War. We have many of his original photos. They were shot with a large format camera, and most of the prints are contact prints.
You old time photo guys here know that means extreme detail is contained on those photos.
We digitized many of those photos, and I can spend hours looking at them on the computer, especially with the zoom feature in my photo software.
What is sad is while these paper and silver photos will last several lifetimes, any digital images captured today will be lucky to be readable in 20 years. Even some CDs we burned 5 years ago are not readable any more. Current technology is great for the now, but it will not last. Even color movies I remember when they were just released are now re-released as digitally enhanced because the color dyes have faded.
B&W photos last a very long time. I know it isn't being done, but someone should be saving today for the future by spending some time in a darkroom with 3 trays of liquid and some photo paper. Otherwise, our todays will all fade to obscurity.
You old time photo guys here know that means extreme detail is contained on those photos.
We digitized many of those photos, and I can spend hours looking at them on the computer, especially with the zoom feature in my photo software.
What is sad is while these paper and silver photos will last several lifetimes, any digital images captured today will be lucky to be readable in 20 years. Even some CDs we burned 5 years ago are not readable any more. Current technology is great for the now, but it will not last. Even color movies I remember when they were just released are now re-released as digitally enhanced because the color dyes have faded.
B&W photos last a very long time. I know it isn't being done, but someone should be saving today for the future by spending some time in a darkroom with 3 trays of liquid and some photo paper. Otherwise, our todays will all fade to obscurity.
