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From: David Carter <spotz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 21:05:35 +1200
I for one are glad I still use film as my primary picture recording medium.
And also that it is not 1 april anymore ...

David
whom does IT digitally


Stephen Troy wrote:
> News Agency Circulation : Geneva
> 
>   Subject: Shocking news for digital photographers
> 
>   With the advent of the digital camera, photographers around the world 
> have rejoiced that they no longer have to worry about fading and 
> discolouring of prints and slides because their photographic 
> masterpiece is preserved for all time in a computer file … or so they 
> thought. Professor Ira Lopolf of the Geneva Institute For Photographic 
> Research & Experimentation has today exploded this comfortable myth 
> with his announcement of some ground-breaking research carried out over 
> the past two years.
> 
>   Prof. Lopolf will address an assembly of the Institute later today 
> with his formal findings, but has already released some of its content 
> to the press.
> 
>   Speaking at his Geneva home before an invited press corps, Prof. 
> Lopolf said “I, and some of my colleagues, have long suspected that 
> each time an image file is opened on a computer, the pixels lose some 
> of their original colour saturation and vibrancy. We are referring to 
> this process as Pixel Fatigue. We conducted tests over a period of two 
> years, making two identical copies of image files, then leaving one 
> unopened and undisturbed on the hard drive, whilst the other file was 
> opened and viewed on screen up to three hundred times over the two 
> years. In every case, when we eventually opened the undisturbed file 
> and compared it with the one that had been repeatedly opened for 
> viewing, the visible difference was dramatic, with the repeatedly 
> opened file having faded noticeably. The results were the same no 
> atter what type of computer we used, or what format we saved the 
> images in. Jpg, RAW, Tiff all suffered in the same way.
> 
>   I have included one of our test examples in the press pack, which 
> clearly demonstrates how much an image of a colourful rose has suffered 
> as a result of this pixel fatigue.
> 
>   I liken this effect to a fine bottle of wine, which if left 
> undisturbed, will keep perfectly, but once opened and disturbed, will 
> quickly deteriorate”
> 
>   When asked what can be done to prevent this phenomenon, Prof. Ira 
> Lopolf had this to say. “Sadly, our work concludes that there is no way 
> of preventing or reversing this pixel fatigue process. If digital 
> photographers want to keep their image files in perfect condition, they 
> must resign themselves to never opening or looking at them”
> 
>   Returning later to his fine bottle of wine analogy, he said. “We are 
> now looking into the possibility that an image file which remains 
> undisturbed on a hard drive for several years may actually improve its 
> pixel quality with age, but establishing a control file to enable a 
> verifiable comparison is proving to be a significant challenge”.
> 
>   So far, none of the major digital camera manufacturers has been 
> prepared to go on record. However, a disgruntled executive who recently 
> lost his job from one of the biggest Japanese firms told us “The top 
> management in the industry have known about this for a long time, but 
> we were all sworn to secrecy. They knew that once the information 
> became public knowledge, digital camera sales would be hit hard. Well, 
> the cat’s really out of the bag now!”
> 
>   Professor Ira Lopolf, is tipped for a Nobel Prize next year.
>   END News report.
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