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In article writes:

I'm not arguing about "best media," I like film and shoot it for personal
pleasure (and use digital for paying jobs), but I'm taking my slides and
negatives (and old photos) and scanning them as best I can for preservation.

I know the answer it this is "You never know" but honestly, I think
there's so much stuff that people are concerned with preserving
forever that nobody will ever care about. When a bunch of negatives
got soaked in a basement flood earlier this year, I didn't cry. Sure,
I was saving them but that's just because I don't throw away things
until they get in the way. But I really didn't expect that 50 years
after I die someone would really care about printing from those
negatives. And I feel the same way about any music I've recorded.

Generally something worth archiving is recognized (in its lifetime) by
experts who will see to it that it's preserved in the best way
possible at the time, and continued to be "refreshed." But no music
historian has ever knocked on my door asking if he can have copies of
my recordings. That's the real test for whether I need to worry about
archiving them.

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I'm really Mike Rivers - )