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Re: Re: Re: [OM] Re: Digital Musings

Subject: Re: Re: Re: [OM] Re: Digital Musings
From: Wayne Harridge <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 08:56:01 +1000



> Tom A. Trottier <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> CD life is ~100 years or more.

Estimated !  I've never seen a 100 YO CD.  I'd guess that even the substrate 
material has not been around for more than 30 years.

> Film has to be very well washed to be archival. 

I can still print/scan from my b & w negs made 30 years ago and I have made 
contact prints from glass plates perhaps 50 YO.

> B+W needs a hypo eliminator. 

> Color dyes are frangible by light, heat, age...

Perhaps somebody with a bit more knowledge of the CD process could fill me in, 
but I thought that the type of CDs that you can burn on your home PC (compared 
with for example a mass produced music CD) were based on changing a 
dye "image" embedded in the CD. 


Wayne Harridge

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~w_harridge

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