Nikon D3X Vs. Ektar 100 & Coolscan V Comparison Sillyness

[Peter R]

I've got an 8" floppy disk from a Trash 80. Do you have a drive that can read it?

I can shine light through my 4x5 chrome or neg and see the image? WHat can you do with that disk?

To be fair, that's like asking 'what can you do with that 78RPM record?'. What you can and should do with it is have the data transferred to a more convenient modern medium.

It's easier to preserve digital information than analog. Ask anybody in charge of professionally archiving photographic prints or film. Speaking personally, my scanned images from the late 80s are in perfect shape, having over time been transferred from floppies to zips to hard drives, whereas my old snapshot prints, negs and trannies have noticably degraded.

 

[user237428934]

I don't do film so often but I agree that colour for film is very often correct out of the box. Compared to that I need time to correct the colour temperature of digital files.
BUT
Time consumption for handling film is a lot more. So again we have the personal preference where you like to spend your time.

 

[Stuart John]

I don't why we are comparing badly color corrected digital to film that was inverted and color color corrected before it left the scanning software. One was shot outside in daylight (daylight balanced film by the way) and the digital was shot inside under mixed lighting without even bothering to correct the colorcast.

 

[sevo]

That's because they didn't invest in a modern IT solution I suppose. I don't know any regulatory requirement for a bank for backup on microfilm or for data storage longer than 10 years.

Direct printing of electronic data to microfilm is the most modern IT solution to the problem, and a younger product than the DVD. A decade ago, the master documents were still on paper which was eventually microfilmed for archival storage.

For many documents, archiving for thirty years is mandatory - and beyond that, deleting is at your own risk. Any proof of ownership is generally considered to require unlimited archiving.

 

[sper]

This isn't specifically about photography, but check out this article from the NY Times about digital archiving.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/books/16archive.html?pagewanted=all