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- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spdcc!joe
- From: joe@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis)
- Subject: Re: Photo CD
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.172708.10121@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <PD.92Dec20184108@horus.sics.se> <1992Dec21.165605.6886@ircam.fr> <PD.92Dec21195152@horus.sics.se>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:27:08 GMT
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- In article <PD.92Dec21195152@horus.sics.se> pd@sics.se (Per Danielsson) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.165605.6886@ircam.fr> francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis) writes:
- >
- >>I think you overestimate the stability of photographic media.
- >
- >I don't think I do. I'm sorry if I didn't make it clear that I was
- >comparing archival prints with PhotoCD (since I responded to a post
- >claiming that CDs are the most most stable archiving system heard of
- >(see article <1gr4nmINNc1t@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>).
- >
- >>In many ways, the stability of photographic media are related to their
- >>cost - which is to say, the amount you spend for good preservation 'up
- >>front'. I think it would be safe to say that a Photo-CD is about as
- >>stable as the media (snapshots) which it is intended to replace.
- >
- >Yes, that is probably a safe assumption. For archival purposes PhotoCD
- >is not the answer, though.
-
- I backtracked through the message tree and found that the original
- question was, indeed, archival storage. The feed I get on the french
- (IRCAM) machine is quite strange, I think. I also didn't discuss
- plastic fracture if photographic paper expands and contracts with
- different humidities...
- --
- US Jojo; damp, slighly soiled, but tasty nonetheless.
-