I for one are glad I still use film as my primary picture recording medium.
And also that it is not 1 april anymore ...
David
whom does IT digitally
Stephen Troy wrote:
> News Agency Circulation : Geneva
>
> Subject: Shocking news for digital photographers
>
> With the advent of the digital camera, photographers around the world
> have rejoiced that they no longer have to worry about fading and
> discolouring of prints and slides because their photographic
> masterpiece is preserved for all time in a computer file … or so they
> thought. Professor Ira Lopolf of the Geneva Institute For Photographic
> Research & Experimentation has today exploded this comfortable myth
> with his announcement of some ground-breaking research carried out over
> the past two years.
>
> Prof. Lopolf will address an assembly of the Institute later today
> with his formal findings, but has already released some of its content
> to the press.
>
> Speaking at his Geneva home before an invited press corps, Prof.
> Lopolf said “I, and some of my colleagues, have long suspected that
> each time an image file is opened on a computer, the pixels lose some
> of their original colour saturation and vibrancy. We are referring to
> this process as Pixel Fatigue. We conducted tests over a period of two
> years, making two identical copies of image files, then leaving one
> unopened and undisturbed on the hard drive, whilst the other file was
> opened and viewed on screen up to three hundred times over the two
> years. In every case, when we eventually opened the undisturbed file
> and compared it with the one that had been repeatedly opened for
> viewing, the visible difference was dramatic, with the repeatedly
> opened file having faded noticeably. The results were the same no
> atter what type of computer we used, or what format we saved the
> images in. Jpg, RAW, Tiff all suffered in the same way.
>
> I have included one of our test examples in the press pack, which
> clearly demonstrates how much an image of a colourful rose has suffered
> as a result of this pixel fatigue.
>
> I liken this effect to a fine bottle of wine, which if left
> undisturbed, will keep perfectly, but once opened and disturbed, will
> quickly deteriorate”
>
> When asked what can be done to prevent this phenomenon, Prof. Ira
> Lopolf had this to say. “Sadly, our work concludes that there is no way
> of preventing or reversing this pixel fatigue process. If digital
> photographers want to keep their image files in perfect condition, they
> must resign themselves to never opening or looking at them”
>
> Returning later to his fine bottle of wine analogy, he said. “We are
> now looking into the possibility that an image file which remains
> undisturbed on a hard drive for several years may actually improve its
> pixel quality with age, but establishing a control file to enable a
> verifiable comparison is proving to be a significant challenge”.
>
> So far, none of the major digital camera manufacturers has been
> prepared to go on record. However, a disgruntled executive who recently
> lost his job from one of the biggest Japanese firms told us “The top
> management in the industry have known about this for a long time, but
> we were all sworn to secrecy. They knew that once the information
> became public knowledge, digital camera sales would be hit hard. Well,
> the cat’s really out of the bag now!”
>
> Professor Ira Lopolf, is tipped for a Nobel Prize next year.
> END News report.
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