997 A Thought on Longevity First Published 4/22/2018

I’m working on a project incorporating both old photographs and images scanned twenty years ago. There is something wonderful about holding a photograph that is one hundred years old. The prints that are coming close to their centennial are still viable and yet the scanned images from twenty years ago aren’t useful for this project because the scanned files are sized at 500 x 800 pixels at 72 dpi.

I find it odd the much older print is still useful to me in this project. The scanned images were done in the early days of digital processing and suffered from (digitally) primitive processes. Today, I will photograph the old print with my camera and get a very sharp 14Mb RAW file to process.