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Re: [OM] The Death of Film

Subject: Re: [OM] The Death of Film
From: "Gary Edwards" <garyetx@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 18:25:04 -0600
Giles, I have no problem joining you as a member of that small minority.
However, I fear that availability and price of silver-based film stocks will
suffer...

Gary Edwards

----- Original Message -----
From: Giles <cnocbui@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] The Death of Film


>
> Woe betide any poor souls who rely on digital media entirely.  'Oh dear we
> had a hard drive crash lastr night and all our wedding photos,
> pictures of the kids with mom and pop when they were stiil with us, the
> kids growing up - all gone!'
>
> I recently got hold of a trunk full of family photos, many  going back to
> the last century, and I don't mean that starting with 1900.  I dread to
> imagine what I would have, or more likely wouldn't, if digital media had
> been used back then for image capture and storage, particularly magnetic
> based media.
>
> I will stick to silver halide photography, and I have no problems with
> being a member of a small minority.
>
> Giles
>
> Dirk Wright wrote:
>
> > my opinion, except for us crazies that is....How soon until you can
> > take your digital camera into the local "one hour" and let them
> > download your images onto another media like floppy, CD, whatever? and
> >
>
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