22nd April 2012, 03:16 PM
Wax Wrote:Indeed what are the basics of photography for a site worker, do we still need the black and white film and colur slide that so many projects insist on running along side the digital?
Black and white prints are meant to be a 'stable' record (since B&W photos have been around for the last century plus and you can still make out someone's great grandfather), and there's currently no guarantee that anyone in 10 years time will be able to open any of today's digital photo files. Slides were meant to be for lectures etc, but since everyone uses Powerpoint these days.....
But in the real world it's just that some curators are still living in the 1980s, some are happy with digital only, personally I regard having 2 different cameras as a good backup in case one lot gets lost for whatever reason