[or-roots] the history of microfilm

[Dan Matney]

Dont forget the acid free envelopes fir the films :)]Dan

On 06/29/2016 09:50 AM, Kith-n-Kin wrote:
>
> You are absolutely right, Layne! How we keep "stuff" is most 
> important. How we "see" it is, I would say, time specific.
>
> Yes, I do enjoy reading the newspapers and all the other digitized 
> items, but I am very concerned about program extinction, where the 
> program creating the file no longer exists -- not only with the 
> digitized films, but of our own digital images -- I've got some that 
> were done so long ago that nothing will read them. Fortunately, not 
> critical.
>
> On the other hand, sometimes rescanning the original documents is very 
> important. The digitizing in gray-scale of censuses is frequently far 
> superior to the black and white of the early efforts. Much more data 
> can be squeezed out.
>
> I remember my first forays into reading censuses on microfilm/fiche 
> was at the Oregon Archives. I was so excited! Some had some 
> significant black "shadow" that prevented us from really reading all 
> the information, but I was so happy to get what I could.
>
> Now, of course, spoiled rotten, "we" tend to expect much more than is 
> reasonable.
>
> Thank you for this additional information. I think we all learned 
> something today!
>
> Pat
>
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