If done incorrectly, it means risking of loss of fidelity in image resolution and precious metadata. Heaven forbid one should attempt to convert these metallic gems into something accessible, such as a tif, jpg, dng… Conversion can be tricky. Even Adobe Photoshop has dropped the plugin. Kodak retained proprietary rights to the formatting of these CD’s and now PCD’s are almost completely incompatible with most applications. Once the pinnacle of digitized photo conversion and preservation, the Kodak Photo CD (Kodak PCD) is now practically obsolete. It should have been fairly straightforward, and then we came upon the notorious Kodak PCDs. We expected the process to go like many other projects. All media was impressively cataloged and organized, waiting to be formatted into a custom Codifi solution. This collection features media ranging from chalkboards to fieldnotes, forms, slides, floppy zips, Kodak PCDs, and powerpoint presentations. Meg Conkey challenged CoDA with an extensive, daunting, yet fastidiously kept, array of media backlogged to the early 1990’s with her Between the Caves Project.
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