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Re: [OM] Time to jump ship? Was What's left - OM stuff FS

Subject: Re: [OM] Time to jump ship? Was What's left - OM stuff FS
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:19:11 -0500
Coming soon to a store near you!  A quick and easy way to transfer 
your best, sure-enough-a-doozy-and-a-keeper digital photos to film 
so they'll still be visible a few years from now.  That'll be when 
I just might -- "might," I said -- be willing to buy something 
more than a digital snapshooter, which I already have: an Olympus 
2000Z.

Meantime, I'm staying put.  I've got trannies and negatives from 
the '60s that look today as good as they did then, and they take 
up little room and cost nothing to store.

Walt
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Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:22:44 -0000


>I decided otherwise, but not for want of admiration for what 
>Olympus have produced (and will doubtless go on to improve in 
>just the way they did with the OM line).  No, what decided me was 
>the media side of the equation.  I have just been looking at 
>Kodachromes dating from the late 1960s (taken with an Instamatic 
>100 - sorry for the OT).  I don't have any confidence that I 
>could do the same thirty years hence with digital images, because 
>the likelihood of being able to 'read' the data is, I believe, 
>low.  Either the media will have degraded, or the hardware to 
>read them will also be long obsolete.  Or the data archiving
>and retrieval task will be too much of a chore.
>
 


 
                   

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