P3D Re: Kodachrome (or film) longevity

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:15 PM 3/26/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>My vote is not to split, because I treasure the diversity on the existing
>>list.  Now that may mean tolerating a *brief* digression into partitioning
>>hard drives, but OK so long as it is brief.  As I remember the discussion
>>of Kodachrome's longevity lasted much longer.  Maybe it just felt like it.
>
>That's an interesting analogy you've made there... The question of
>Kodachrome's longevity, is equivalent to partitioning a hard drive... From
>my point of view, Kodachrome's (and other film's) longevity is a
>fundamental and unresolved question in the minds of those who record stereo
>images on film or who own stereo images recorded on film.  Partitioning a
>hard drive is a minor technical question in the minds of those who use
>computers today.  

I think I see the nub of the problem here ... because stereo cameras are
ONLY used for stereo photography, some people consider any trifling detail
about stereo cameras to be relevent to the discussion of stereo imagery.
However, because computers are general-purpose instruments that can be used
in many other areas besides stereo imagery, the details of how to use the
computer effectively, even if it is only being used for stereo imagery, are
considered arcane and irrelevant. 

>Kodachrome brought color to photography and is directly responsible for the
>wave of popularity of "modern" stereo.  There are millions of Kodachrome
>stereo images recorded in VM reels and taken by the 300,000 or so stereo
>cameras produced from the 1940s until today.   As a non-Kodachrome stereo
>photographer today, I only have one anxiety:  Are my images going to last
>through my lifetime?  Like it or not, this is a fundamental question
>affecting many (if not most) stereo photographers and stereo image
>collectors today.

Suppose we were talking about the longevity of magnetic and optical digital
storage media.  Would that make it relevent to photo-3d?

>Just trying to put things into perspective -- George Themelis

Likewise.

-pd


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