But our assessment is that it will still be sometime before the technology matures and becomes widely acceptable in the archiving community. Since the technology is still in its infancy, image quality is not good enough for large size printing. Though the high-end model can produce good printing quality, the camera is expensive. Most digital cameras cannot successfully capture full colour information and details of an image as compared to film. Low cost printing is not possible compared to photographic print.
Storage capacity is limited to the amount of memory available.
File transfer is extremely slow or not possible for high quality images. We however do not rule out using digital cameras at the archives and even though we do not use them for the time being, we accept deposition of digital images captured by digital cameras of professional range. There are plans to digitise some of the other more popularly consulted records within the next two years. They include maps, building plans, selected historical documents, film and sound recordings. However, these printouts will not be of very good quality.