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A Cranky One11/19/2021 11:42:27 am PST

re: #480 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

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Re the earlier discussions about film vs digital, I spent many hours in the darkroom. It was owned by the guy teaching me. One of his primary interests was creating archival quality prints and even back then he was complaining about the archival quality papers disappearing.

When going through my mom’s estate, we found many very old photos of previous generations and family as kids. One of my brothers (who definitely qualifies as a guru) was able to digitize and fix damaged photos. So that history was saved.

But here is the dilemma:

We had prints that were over 100 years old. I’d consider those an archival storage medium.

How archival is digital? Formats change, readers change. Will we have 100 year old photos available in the future?