>>>>We will never know the limits of digital technology, in the pass 20
>>years the films only improved very little (has the resolution improved
>>by two or three times?). But how about the computer and storage device?>>
>
>
>I'd say that the resolution and color accuracy HAS improved 2-3x over the
>past 20 years. In chromes, the improvement has been slow due to the
>superior quality that we've had with Fuji 50 and K25/64. But it sure is
>nice to beable to get similar resolution and quality in a 200 speed film as
>we did in a 50/64 speed film.
>
>How about print film? Fuji Super-G 800 is awesome. The wedding films of
>today are fantastic. How about T-Max? That isn't any slouch.
>
>Fact is, we are living in an awesome time where the films are no longer the
>limiting factors in our creative efforts. Kodak, Fuji, Agfa and Ilford are
>regularily introducing new films that keep improving and pushing the
>technological envelope.
>
>One question I have, is storage of digital pictures. Negatives and slides
>are extremely cheep, small and have long life spans. When will digital
>beable to beat that? CD-ROMS? I don't think so--not with today's
>technology. True archival storage will remain in the analog domain for some
>time yet.
>
>Ken N.
>
>
Not only the life of the storage medium, but also the storage technology.
Think of it, if all your pictures were on 5 inch floppies. Does anyone
think we will be using CDRom 20 years from now? It is unlikely that CDRom
will last as long as the next bus technology which seems to be some
combination of USB and Firewire. It is very unlikely that anyone will make
CDRom for the next bus technology after that and certainly no one will
write drivers for them or programs that can use the data. PhotoShop v18.5
is unlikely to be useful for today's photo compression schemes.
Winsor
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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