So when the author discovered that Chang Ts'ai had preserved a number of rolls of negative from over 30 years ago inside a few tea leaf jars, he begged to have them developed.
卅多年來，張才將一部分成卷的底片分裝在十幾個茶葉桶內，才保存下來。為了這次整理「台灣攝影一百年」的工作，筆者多次探訪遊說，這些封塵的影像才又見天日。