27th February 2014, 02:05 PM
Sith Wrote:I think you'll find that 35mm is the smaller format.
The dinosaurs have a point. 'Real' photography has been around for over a century and there's plenty of evidence for what materials survive, for how long and in what conditions. I am old enough to remember friends involved in the early days of the ADS scrabbling round for defunct hardware and software to try and access digital data.
But, but, but, Jack says jpegs have been around for ages, which is certainly more convincing evidence than your claim that prints have been around for over a century so there is clearly no problem. Presumably that's what he teaches at his high-quality school. :face-thinks:
I too can remember people struggling to get information off old storage formats and it is easy to imagine how much fun that might be in 100 years time. The thing that is going to determine the issue is not whether archaeologists decide they want to continue using print or slide, but whether you can still buy the bloody film (and get it developed) somewhere, which is already getting difficult in some cases. Archaeologists will ultimately have no say in the matter.