[or-roots] Destroying old Microfilms

[W David Samuelsen]

There are at least 5 different type of microfilms since they first came up in 1940s.

The brown ones are most brittle right now due to age and increasing harder to 
read due to wear off of emulsion.

The latest is something that is quite scratchable if you're not careful. Super 
thin, too.

David Samuelsen

Aloha Analanie wrote:
> They are destroying themselves; that's the point. 
> Film has a finite life and has to be recopied because
> it becomes scratched and brittle with use and with
> time. Image quality degrades with subsequent copies. 
> This is why they are digitizing old films.
> 
> Aloha
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