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To: Ausdauer who wrote (11906)	6/10/2000 10:58:00 AM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Aus OT.. a thought you may wish to run with on a weekend. It concerns the thinning of the news gathered picture historical record. I worked with Fortune and Time as well as National Geographic long ago and am very familiar with cameras, lenses and film. I've got 8X10's down to half frame 35's. A common routine through the 'film' era (looking backwards from the future), was for a newspaper or wire service to send out a reporter to cover an event. They would shoot ten to twenty rolls, get them processed, pick the best for publicaton and store the balance of the images in an archive. Today, more frequently, a reporter is sent out to cover an event with a digital camera. The images are brought back and reviewed on a monitor and some or one selected for publication. Most often, the rest of the images are dumped from memory for the next event. The images are not stored to a permanent medium, though there are a few that use CD's to back up work. In sum, this transition era of digital image news collection will be seen as an extremely thin time period in the historical picture record. Video helps of course, but the depth of images stored in film archives won't be matched for some years to come. Just an observation.. PS. you had me laughing with your post on "C'mon people now love one another..." If that's your grandfather's music then I know your grandfather. :) Jim