8 Aug
2005
8 Aug
'05
2:15 p.m.
>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stevens
<chenmel at earthlink.net> writes:
Scott> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 07:51:18 -0400
Scott> shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com (Tim Shoppa) wrote:
> > BTW what are you doing to preserve your VHS
tapes? Remember VHS
> > equipment are disappearing fast from the retail market
>
> What's really sad is I know many people who had their Super-8
> movie film transferred to VHS in the 90's and threw away the
> originals.
>
> Now most Super-8 film was not stored in exactly "archival"
> condition but I'm 100% sure that it would've outlived the VHS
> tape. And Super-8 projectors, while not the simplest devices in
> the world, are certainly maintainable.
>
> Yeah, I know, I'm OT in the "computer hardware sense" but I think
> the same principles may in some cases be applicable to computer
> media.
>
> Tim.
Scott> Your comments most certainly apply, and your comparison holds,
Scott> with respect to people who are doing the same thing in
Scott> film-to-digital conversion with regard to Microfiche, which
Scott> have a long proven archival quality in comparison to the
Scott> dubious CDR/magnetic medium the data is converted to.
Scott> Although it's fair to say that a lot of the people converting
Scott> Microfiche to pdf (or .tif images) are retaining the
Scott> microfilm.
Black and white images have clean solutions. Unfortunately, color
images don't -- color film, especially older film, probably already
has faded quite a lot and will fade more over time.
One solution comes to mind, from a very old book about photography
that mentioned color images done with black & white film vian an
interference scheme. Film mounted on a reflecting background, mercury
originally -- interference fringes in the (thick?) emulsion... That
would be as good as silver black&white film...
paul