It's sort of sad that, apparently, actual film photos are such a rarity these days. We really will likely have a "dark ages" of this time period considering there really won't be much photographic record of today since the digital medium isn't exactly great when it comes to longevity.
My family has a century-plus old photograph of a paternal great-grandfather and his family. It's a very old photograph, obviously, and shows it's age, it's very delicate it's cracked and a couple pieces of it are missing around the edges. But it's a real, actual, photograph of people who have been dead for a century.
I have a printing of a digital picture taken of myself from just a few years ago that's already damaged because of the delicate-nature of the ink on the paper.
It really makes me wonder if my grand children or great-descendants are even going to know what I looked like or what anything looked like from this time period. Do you think they're still going to be using jpegs and gifs 100 years from now? Do you think a printed photo of you is going to survive 100 years of being kept in a variety of boxes, books and folders, exposure to elements and varying temperatures?
So it sort of saddens me to see people wondering if places even personally handle film processing anymore, or to see movies or other media being made in a digital format. This may really be a "dark age" for people living in the future. It's difficult if not impossible to even get a simple piece of software made a decade ago to work on a present-day computer, as time goes on and backwards-compatibility stops supporting the more distant generations of software all of those CDs, DVDs, eventually Blu-Rays and so forth will become less and less useful, even now diskette drives are a thing of the past.
Sigh.
Sorry, not to be a downer but... it's just shocking to me how much is going to be lost to our descendants.
