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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 08-09-2014 11:22 PM

In relation to the points on page 1 about film stock for archiving, camera negative stock can be used for printing archival preservation masters, but in many workflows (e.g. if the master element being duplicated for preservation is itself a negative), it's not ideal. Many of the intermediate stocks that were very important for archival preservation have either now gone out of production, or have minimum orders and long lead times that effectively put them out of easy reach of even the major preservation centers (e.g. UCLA, GEH, British Film Institute, etc. etc.). The decline of film has already become a big problem for the archiving world, and some leading preservationists are now arguing that we have to plan for photochemical duplication to no-longer be considered a viable preservation tool. In other words, keep the master film element for preservation, but accept that you'll be scanning it regularly to whatever is the DI format of the day.

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