I don't need a new-fangled automobile. In five years, we'll all be back on
our horses wondering why we ever wasted time and money on those machines.
I'm very happy with the results of my printing. Are they forever -- perhaps
not -- but I suspect they'll outlive me and perhaps my children. Of course,
I still will have the originals -- on some form of disk/holographic
storage/biochemical storage system.
I meet people at the shows that proudly proclaim that they are purists that
use only 'real' chemical processing. One insisted that he used fresh
chemicals for every print -- and tried to charge accordingly. It was fun to
watch the reaction of potential customers. I've yet to see one that cared.
Tom
> Good thinking. I fear a tremendous gap in photographic history
> at some point. Our current reliance upon an intangible medium
> could subject future generations to a a period of time where
> billions of photographs were taken but few preserved/printed for
> future generations.
>
> I don't care what our current wisdom says--I have little trust
> in the "archival" nature of Epson pigment prints. Five years
> from now we'll be bragging up the archival properties of a new
> printer and lamenting the inferiority of our current state of
> the art.
>
> At least archivally processed silver-geletin on fiber prints
> have a known lifespan.
>
> AG
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