Whitcomb wrote: > It was interesting today for me to listen to Rich Running, Product Manager > for FamilySearch Indexing. Some things were neat to know - like they expect > all films in the vault to be digitized in 6-7 years. I knew they are not > creating much new microfilm anymore.. straight to digital now, but I didn't > know that the Church only had 20 cameras. This does not surprise me at all. Just 25 years ago, had more than 100 in the field, then the technology improved so much, that the companies making the parts for cameras are going out of business or discontinued manufacturing these parts. It was found that the digital route result in better images. No Fish-eye images. Not every film can be converted, some will have to go back to the field to do the necessary digitalizing. And 6-7 years is fine as long as there's agreements with those county governments, city governments, organizations, etc, covering copyright issues as well. David Samuelsen