Date:         Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:22:23 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: NO VW Van Screensaver MAC Testers needed,
              not for Windows XP or Me either
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>And what in 20 years from now ?
>Who will have anything that could read the CDīs that we store all digital
>pictures on today ??
>Or in 100 years ??
>In my fathers house thereīs a picture taken when my granddad was young
>sometime around 1890 -
>Even if faded, you could easily recognise people and what they are doing !!!
>
>Itīs not important on the Vanagon Screensaver/calendar discussion but maybe
>worth a bit of contemplating for me as for anyone else with a digicam : What
>kind of documentation do we want leave to the future generations ??
>
>Calle

Very good point, and the proliferation of digital 
cameras will eventually be regretted.

Electronic & CD images are ephemeral, at least 
with today's technology. A photo printed on 
acid-free paper, so long as the chemicals are 
STABLE (ie not Agfa, whose color prinye fade even 
when stored in the dark), will last much 
longer... and can easily be picked up and leafed 
through.

Digital images can be useful ie "easy" to edit 
(and the downside, to fake; and of course it's 
hard to post a paper photo on a website...), but 
cannot replace photography (a digital image is 
not a photograph, it's an electronic ANALOG of a 
photo).
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut