That wouldn't even be counting the storage costs of the film itself. Just because it's been digitized doesn't mean you chuck out the originals. Those have to be kept in a climate-controlled facility, and that's no mean task.<br>
<br>-Devin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Henry Lowood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lowood@stanford.edu">lowood@stanford.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Andrew, regarding ...<br>
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Andrew Armstrong wrote:
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Unlike film, which has no issues once permission is granted to get from
film to digital ...</blockquote>
I wish that were true. Transfer from film to digital is incredibly
expensive right now, and there are some major issues, primarily
technical and financial. Handling film, esp. nitrate film, is
non-trivial. Storage costs, another issue, as current digital film
technologies result in absolutely massive files. I believe one of the
NDIIPP projects is working in in this area. At Stanford, we had to
turn down a collection last year, because digitization costs were
estimated at around $15 million. <br><font color="#888888">
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Henry</font><div class="im"><br>
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