Re:Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Pr...
by AshFurrow on Saturday January 17, 2015 @12:29PM
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The SD cards may hold the data that long, but I don't think it's likely that it will be accessible. To computer enthusiasts with legacy hardware/software maybe. I shoot on film and I know that even my negatives will eventually fade. Photography has taught me to enjoy life because everything eventually ends.
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Re:Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Pr...
by userbinator on Sunday January 18, 2015 @12:08AM
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SD cards are a simple serial interface that is well-documented at the block-device layer; the filesystem will likely be some variant of FAT, and I doubt the JPEG standard will be entirely forgotten, so while hardware like SD card readers may not be produced commercially anymore by then, anyone with the right knowledge can still make one.
This is, of course, supposing that the rather scary situation of heavily-locked-down devices and completely-restricted access to knowledge has not occurred...
Re:Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Pr...
by ars on Saturday January 17, 2015 @07:21PM
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> To computer enthusiasts with legacy hardware/software maybe.
All you need is one person that can access it. Do you know of any technology that we can no longer access?
They are lots of great stories about the hard work people had to do to access them (the video scans of the moon for example) but none that I know of that failed.
Re:Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Pr...
by pdardeau on Saturday January 17, 2015 @11:10PM
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> All you need is one person that can access it. Do you know of any technology that we can no longer access?
Technically, that's true. However, would it be economically feasible for the average person with ordinary family photos?
Re:Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Pr...
by aaronbrethorst on Sunday January 18, 2015 @05:00AM
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Fwiw, a properly fixed, permawashed, and archival washed silver gelatin fiber print should outlast our grandchildren.