{"id":24005,"date":"2022-09-03T01:02:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T05:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24005"},"modified":"2022-09-02T00:29:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T04:29:17","slug":"the-digital-dilemma-or-where-have-all-the-photos-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-digital-dilemma-or-where-have-all-the-photos-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"the digital dilemma or where have all the photos gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24006\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Digital-Dilemma-MAUSE-Double-Click-Newletter-Dec.-2005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24006\" class=\"wp-image-24006 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Digital-Dilemma-MAUSE-Double-Click-Newletter-Dec.-2005-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">print from film negative taken by C M Dunbar<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. My good friend, George Dunbar, writes, &#8220;I&#8217;ve just discovered this <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Digital-Dilemma-MAUSE-Double-Click-Newletter-Dec.-2005.jpg\">2005 article<\/a> in my files and thought it may be useful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was published in the local newsletter of an Apple\/MAC computer club. As many of you know, this is my <i>hot button<\/i>\u00a0subject.\u00a0Although it was published 17 years ago, it appears to be valid today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As you know, George is talking about the potential difficulty reading digital files as images in the future &#8211; when media and perhaps even file formats are obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>Old fashioned film, printed in darkrooms makes positive prints. With those prints saved in anything from fancy albums to shoe boxes, they can be viewed even today by our eyes &#8211; no fancy gear\/apps are necessary.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, George compares image files on a hard diskette with \u00a0such prints (ironically the hard diskette shown in the article &#8211; \u00a0and readers &#8211; are obsolete already. Food for thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. My good friend, George Dunbar, writes, &#8220;I&#8217;ve just discovered this 2005 article in my files and thought it may be useful. &#8220;It was published in the local newsletter of an Apple\/MAC computer club. As many of you know, this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-digital-dilemma-or-where-have-all-the-photos-gone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[105,4172,14,30,220,316],"class_list":["post-24005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-digital","tag-file-formats","tag-film","tag-images","tag-photos","tag-prints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24005"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24013,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24005\/revisions\/24013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}