A 35mm camera -- whether a nice SLR or a cheap "disposable" -- when used in
conjunction with a negative / slide transparency scanner and a CD-burner
gives you the best of both worlds. We've been using a variety of cameras and
Kodak's Photo CD format. More than 100 images fit on each CD; cost is
$70-$100 depending on number of images; and turn-around time is about a
week. Film can be sent directly for developing and production of CD or
developed separately and negs sent for CD. Requires some planning; flatbed
scanner and 1-hour developing work in a pinch.

Fewer gadgets equates to less fun -- but also means there is less to worry
about breaking.

Derek Trelstad
LZA Technology
New York, NY

-----Original Message-----
From: Jrhodes [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 9:45 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: E-info Preservation


Re: Leland:

>Black and white glass neg.s look great from last century.  Estimations of
>digital degradation are ten percent per annum.  My color 35mm slides on
>kodak 25 asa from 1967 look great, so too the agfa and the Tri X pan from
>early sixties.  Let's hear it for silver....

Hi-yo Silver!  I pause while considering buying a nice new digital camera,
wondering if I'll be able to look at anything I photographed twenty or
thirty years from now.  Most of what we shoot isn't printed, and from
digital, much is printed cheaply.  I have file drawers from the 60's and
70's with beautiful enlarged "contact" sheets and selected prints much on
acid free paper, most on RC paper.  I know I'll always have those images.
But now that resolution on digital is improving, and considering the ease
and control there is in editing and manipulating images, all I really miss
is the fantastic resolution of 35mm and 2 1/4 work.

Actually, now that I'm about to convert my old darkroom to a guest
bathroom, I know I'll also miss working in my own private creativity space
(No. You can't come in now, I'm developing!), and the acrid smell of fixer.
Hi-yo, silver...away!  --Jim Rhodes