Re: Counteracting data transience
Re: Counteracting data transience
- Subject: Re: Counteracting data transience
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:38:59 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
In a message dated Jul 16, 2007 1:46 AM, Bob Frost wrote:
>In any case, I'm not sure that we need to preserve raw files for posterity.
>The raw files aren't the 'art'; the 'art' is the finished product - that is
>what we need to preserve and we can do that as tiffs or prints.
One's abilities and personal tastes change over time, and so do technologies.
Being able to go back to the Raw file means that one can go back to the source and improve upon past results without incurring the penalty of visible data loss that may occur due to rendering practices that one used in the past.
If you saw the Ansel Adams show that toured the country a few years back, you also saw that Adams kept reinterpreting his images differently throughout his life. The exhibit showed the changes in a very explicit and dramatic fashion.
If you plan never to change your work methods, not to update your knowledge, never to change your personal taste, forever to be delighted with the results you're achieving today, and not to use future technologies that may produce visibly different results from those available today -- then you're happy as a clam already, and data transience is clearly not your concern.
Marco Ugolini
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Colorsync-users mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden