[or-roots] Destroying old Microfilms

[DanM]

I spose all the bright light of the reader degrades them too.
   Don't the originals stay out of use in the dark tho ?
Dan M
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From: "Aloha Analanie" <yukahana at yahoo.com>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 8:47 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Destroying old Microfilms


> 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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