Both photo shops that we use will still produce
transparencies/negatives. The majority of our images are now distributed
digitally (press, catalogues, brochures), but many of them originated as
a transparency or slide that we had scanned at a high resolution. The
prints that I've had produced from the digitals are very high quality.

Rachel Talent Ivers
Registrar/Exhibitions Coordinator
Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Avenue
Miami Beach, FL  33139
tel. 305.673.7530
fax 305.673.7062


-----Original Message-----
From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Lynne
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:57 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: No Negative


  A resident who lived in our town in the late 1920's sent us some
original 
photos of his still-standing historic house here. He asked that they be 
returned after copying them. I scanned them at a high resolution and
saved 
them to a CD. In light of the ongoing debates about digitizing images
and 
ever-changing technology, however, I also took them to two photo shops
in 
town and asked that negatives be made of them -- so we always have
something 
in hand. I was startled when both places said they don't make negatives 
anymore and that they just scan the images too. They did note, though,
that 
if I brought the CD to them, they could print the images with whatever 
technology they have that produces longer-lasting images than those from
our 
ink-jet printer.
    Is this true everywhere? Are negatives now unavailable and useless?
We 
have many negatives in our collection already and I foresee having to
jump 
in and start digitizing those images. Is this true of slides, too?
    Thanks!
Lynne 

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