From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/05/02 Tue PM 11:58:07 GMT
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
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Of course my impact wrench is 35 years old, so maybe that
doesn't count. Never mind:-).
That's ok cause you used it on a 51 year old car!
Kenneth Waller
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From: Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity
want to know!
We saved our programs in high school on paper tape and entered them at
the teletype. DEC10.
Tom C.
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Date: Tue
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Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 16:36:39 -0400
I'm not as old as I thought, I learned to program on a CRT, (My last
assignment, for extra credit, had to be submitted
William Robb wrote:
For the great unwashed, it is also a matter of complacency
and lack of
interest.
I predict that an entire generation of pictures will mostly
be lost because
the computer is not archiving friendly.
For once, my sympathies lie with the public. Operating systems over
On May 2, 2006, at 4:30 PM, William Robb wrote:
I predict that an entire generation of pictures will mostly be lost
because the computer is not archiving friendly.
I'll predict the same thing because most writable CD/DVD media is
cheap crap. Regardless of the future readability of
A more powerful machine doesn't necessarily mean a machine that's more
complicated to operate. While it's true that new programs may require a
bit of time to learn, it seems that many, especially those designed for the
average user, aren't that difficult to figure out, especially if you've
used
On May 1, 2006, at 11:29 AM, John Forbes wrote:
Using a computer and programming a computer are two very different
things, as you well know. Writing scripts is programming, and to
somebody who has never done it, it represents a major obstacle.
Who said anything about writing a script?
William Robb wrote:
- Original Message - From: Boris Liberman
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Godfrey, you're being slightly wrong here... Consider this. Find a
task which you cannot possibly do. For me it would be fixing my own
car on my own
A more powerful doesn't necessarily mean a machine that's more complicated
to operate. While it's true that new programs may require a bit of time to
learn, it seems that many, especially those designed for the average user,
aren't that difficult to figure out, especially if you've used earlier
Hey, Shel, would you copy my 8 floppies to DVD for me? And I've got a
half dozen 1/4 512mb SCSI tape cartridges that I would like to have
copied too... Oh, yes, about 150 3.5 inch floppies as well; my floppy
drive died last year and I do not feel it is worth $5 to replace it
although I may get
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 12:06:07 -0400
Hey, Shel, would you copy my 8 floppies to DVD for me? And I've got a half
dozen 1/4 512mb SCSI tape cartridges that I would like to have copied
too... Oh, yes
On May 2, 2006, at 9:06 AM, graywolf wrote:
Humm...? That makes me think. The two modern conveniences I would
not want to give up are the indoor bathroom, and the personal
computer.
Reminds me of a family get together years ago when my great great
grandmother was still alive. There were
Quoting graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Humm...? That makes me think. The two modern conveniences I would not
want to give up are the indoor bathroom, and the personal computer.
graywolf
I'd have to say the pants zipper vbg and computer would be mine.
Things i can live with out would be local
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
A more powerful machine doesn't necessarily mean a machine
that's more complicated to operate. While it's true that new
programs may require a bit of time to learn, it seems that
many, especially those designed for the average user, aren't
that difficult to figure
You don't need to have been born in 1880 to have experienced life without
modern conveniences.
In my young day in East Africa we had a wood fire and a paraffin
(kerosene) fridge. Telephones and televisions were unknown. I went to
the cinema only twice before I was thirteen (the
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From: Malcolm Smith
Subject: RE: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
And no different is the buying public in wanting the latest, that does
more
and more but is slowly becoming remote from any ability to use computers
as
they were
Hi Bill,
I may be different from some people in that I spend a lot of time
researching whatever interests me or what I need. I'm kind of hard wired
that way, perhaps something I picked up from my parents or grand parents.
Funny thing is, my brother and sister are that way as well. I've seen my
Subject: RE: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
A more powerful doesn't necessarily mean a machine that's more complicated
to operate. While it's true that new programs may require a bit of time
to
learn, it seems that many, especially those designed for the average user
it's too late.
Tom C.
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 12:20:01 -0600
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Smith
Subject
In a message dated 5/2/2006 9:08:36 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Humm...? That makes me think. The two modern conveniences I would not
want to give up are the indoor bathroom, and the personal computer.
graywolf
I kind of like microwave ovens too. And I doubt I
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
I kind of like microwave ovens too. And I doubt I could live happily
without
my DVD player now (once my VCR, which I still have, of course).
I like my compound
What sort of nails do you use to nail air?
Dave S.
On 5/3/06, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like my compound mitre saw and air nailer...
William Robb
:
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Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
I kind of like microwave ovens too. And I doubt I could live happily
without
my DVD player now (once my VCR, which I still have, of course).
I like my compound mitre saw and air
On Mon, 01 May 2006 05:37:42 +0100, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Once you put all your files into a repository as large and as fast as a
hard drive based backup system, making conversions en masse is simply
not an issue.
- Move the data to a new archive? Plug in the new
On May 1, 2006, at 2:45 AM, John Forbes wrote:
They say that tight-rope walking over Niagara isn't that difficult
- once you pass a certain threshold of resources
and understanding.
Tightrope walking over Niagra Falls is just as difficult as tightrope
walking anywhere else. Once you have
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From: Godfrey DiGiorgi
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
It is not comparable to learning how to operate a computer and knowing
what to do to move data, which simply takes storage devices, a little
time with a book
On May 1, 2006, at 6:47 AM, William Robb wrote:
The very vast majority of people are not interested in this
subject. They want technology that works, is simple, and doesn't
require much thought or maintenance.
Up intil recently, the vadt majority of pictures were stored on a
hard copy, and
In a message dated 5/1/2006 6:49:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now that the computer industry has taken over the job of image storage, it
has a defacto responsibility to the consumer to emulate the simplicity of
film based image storage.
This means a responsible
On Mon, 01 May 2006 14:38:45 +0100, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On May 1, 2006, at 2:45 AM, John Forbes wrote:
They say that tight-rope walking over Niagara isn't that difficult -
once you pass a certain threshold of resources
and understanding.
Tightrope walking over
On May 1, 2006, at 7:22 AM, John Forbes wrote:
It is not comparable to learning how to operate a computer and
knowing what to do to move data, which simply takes storage
devices, a little time with a book, and a plan to do what is
required. Nearly anyone can do it, except for the very
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Mark!
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Hey, I'm probably at the low end of the technology oriented. Not a
complete dunce, but nowhere near as knowledgeable as many people on the
list. However, I can burn a CD or DVD, or copy my files to a second hard
drive easily enough. I may not always know the fastest way to do things,
and I
On May 1, 2006, at 7:22 AM, John Forbes wrote:
It is not comparable to learning how to operate a computer and
knowing what to do to move data, which simply takes storage
devices, a little time with a book, and a plan to do what is
required. Nearly anyone can do it, except for the very
I imagine the vast majority of photographs were stored like my parents'
were when I was a kid. The had a big cardboard box in the attic about 25
inches on a side. In it were a half dozen albums, and half filling it
were snapshot prints and negatives just tossed in loose.
graywolf
On Mon, 01 May 2006 16:50:36 +0100, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On May 1, 2006, at 7:22 AM, John Forbes wrote:
It is not comparable to learning how to operate a computer and knowing
what to do to move data, which simply takes storage devices, a little
time with a book, and
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From: Shel Belinkoff
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Hey, I'm probably at the low end of the technology oriented. Not a
complete dunce, but nowhere near as knowledgeable as many people on the
list. However, I can burn
William Robb wrote:
- Original Message - From: Godfrey DiGiorgi
Regards the standards, well, the only thing for certain is that
they're a great idea. That's why there are so many of them.
The concept of a lot of standards as being a good thing is moronic.
William Robb
I think
WooHoo (is that the correct PDML techno-term?) ... I'm ahead of some people
;-))
Seriously, Bill, there are a lot of folks who are not on this or other
lists, who rarely surf the web for computer info, or participate in any
technical forums, yet they seem to be able to make backups and burn DVD's
MOST do not.
Tom C.
From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 12:45:42 -0700
WooHoo (is that the correct PDML techno-term?) ... I'm
On May 1, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Bob W wrote:
Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on.
You'll be needing Steve Swing Low Cotterell for that...
The horse I rode in on isn't interested in Bill, sorry.
Cotty?
Godfrey
in which their crap software is to be used.
--
Cheers,
Bob
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From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
WooHoo (is that the correct PDML
In a message dated 5/1/2006 1:11:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If I was in control of
that team I would immediately send them all on a user-centred design course
and make sure they learn to listen to people's needs, and understand the
context in which their crap software
Hi!
Tightrope walking over Niagra Falls is just as difficult as tightrope
walking anywhere else. Once you have the skill to walk a tightrope high
up in open air, you can do it anywhere. All it takes beyond that is
courage, insanity or stupidity, depending upon the perspective of
the person
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From: Boris Liberman
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Godfrey, you're being slightly wrong here... Consider this. Find a task
which you cannot possibly do. For me it would be fixing my own car on my
own. Find another
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From: Boris Liberman
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Will there be a program, a software piece able to read the PEFs or DNGs or
JPGs or TIFFs in 25 years?
We are having a similar problem with defunct film formats.
We
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 06:00:37 +0100, Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi!
I discovered the need more storage thread just now, by looking in the
archives. Long term storage is a hot topic among my friends over here
at the moment, but nobody seems to have any best practice to point
CD's are already being replaced by flash memory. DVD's are being
replaced by DL DVD's, and eventually will probably be replace by flash
memory too. What will replace flash memory, who knows? You can bet that
no media will ever have a useful life expectancy of more than 10 years
before it is
Will there be a program, a software piece able to read the PEFs or
DNGs or JPGs or TIFFs in 25 years?
Boris, you are not going to go to sleep like Rip Van Winkle,
and wake up in 30 years to find that JPEGS are history.
You'll see a new format
introduced (if it is), and make new
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:26:06 +0100, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Will there be a program, a software piece able to read the PEFs or
DNGs or JPGs or TIFFs in 25 years?
Boris, you are not going to go to sleep like Rip Van Winkle,
and wake up in 30 years to find that JPEGS are history.
Bob -
I don't see the time or cost of format conversion as different than
the investment I'm making in scanning slides and prints into digital
formats. And digital files are much easier and cheaper to convert to
new formats than film and paper.
Usually these conversions can be performed over a
Once you put all your files into a repository as large and as fast as
a hard drive based backup system, making conversions en masse is
simply not an issue.
- Move the data to a new archive? Plug in the new drive, plug in the
original, tell the OS to copy it. Have lunch or go to bed. It
Hi!
I discovered the need more storage thread just now, by looking in the
archives. Long term storage is a hot topic among my friends over here
at the moment, but nobody seems to have any best practice to point
to.
Nobody includes me too :-) but I would very much like to establish
a good
On 4/28/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The keeping quality of inkjet prints depends upon both the ink type
and the mating of paper and ink, as well as the archival qualities of
the paper itself. I'm not sure what you mean by reticulation ... What
I see in my older dye-based
On Apr 27, 2006, at 11:08 PM, David Savage wrote:
Reticulation, like on film, the surface looks like a cracked dried
lake bed. I've seen it on some of my old inkjet prints too.
Ah, ok. Sounds like a poor mating of ink and paper surface. I haven't
seen that particular deterioration on any
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From: Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 9:09 PM
Subject: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Dear gang,
I discovered the need more storage thread just now, by looking in the
archives. Long term storage
On Apr 28, 2006, at 5:22 AM, graywolf wrote:
And then, the house I had the negatives and prints from my serious
photography period stored at burned down. With digital media it is
easy to have copies in two or more locations.
Yes, one set of my DVD backups is stored offsite for this very
Negs in binders. Digital camera originals on two separate hard drives
and DVD. I'm leaning towards hard drive storage in the future. I
increasingly find DVDs are antiquated and cumbersome technology. I print
about 1 % of my work for reasons of cost and space. I shoot about 6000
frames a year.
Hi Ryan
I agree after seeing that you backup to other media too.
sorry for the misunderstanding.
greetings
Markus
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From: Ryan Brooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 9:45 PM
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your
On Apr 28, 2006, at 2:12 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Ah, ok. Sounds like a poor mating of ink and paper surface.
That, or the base shrunk and the top coating cracked and bubbled and
came off.
-Aaron
It's only happened to prints made on cheap Kodak paper, which in my
experience didn't get along too well with Epson's inks.
Dave S.
On 4/28/06, Aaron Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 28, 2006, at 2:12 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Ah, ok. Sounds like a poor mating of ink and paper
This is one of the arguments for using the manufacturers' recommended
OEM papers, of course.
Godfrey
On Apr 28, 2006, at 7:31 AM, David Savage wrote:
It's only happened to prints made on cheap Kodak paper, which in my
experience didn't get along too well with Epson's inks.
Dave S.
On
Yep. My experience convinced me to stick with Epson's paper.
I have had good results with Ilford's paper though.
Dave S.
On 4/28/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is one of the arguments for using the manufacturers' recommended
OEM papers, of course.
Godfrey
On Apr 28,
On Apr 28, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Aaron Reynolds wrote:
This is one of the arguments for using the manufacturers'
recommended OEM papers, of course.
Except my base shrinkage and cracking problem occurred with a
supposedly archival Epson paper (since discontinued), using an
archival Epson
On Apr 28, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
This is one of the arguments for using the manufacturers' recommended
OEM papers, of course.
Except my base shrinkage and cracking problem occurred with a
supposedly archival Epson paper (since discontinued), using an archival
Epson
Well you are taking about theory and I am talking about observed prints.
Those prints I were made about 6 months ago on a current model Epson
with Epson ink and Epson paper. However it is a low end model printer as
I can not afford anything else. I was showing them outdoors to a friend
and
So it turns out quite a few people feel the way I do. I would print
my most important images and try to store them archivally. Print and
transparency are, after all, the only storage media that don't require
readers (apart from human vision, and I don't know when that will be
antiquated). I
35mm slides do require readers, but they're very simple readers ...
magnifying glasses or projectors. This became painfully apparent at
the course I'm taking last evening when one person who brought in her
art work as slides but didn't bring a light box or projector: it made
it impossible
Dear gang,
I discovered the need more storage thread just now, by looking in the
archives. Long term storage is a hot topic among my friends over here
at the moment, but nobody seems to have any best practice to point
to.
Nobody includes me too :-) but I would very much like to establish
a
So far, a back up onto a 120 gig Maxtor as well as a CD or DVD burn.For small
files a CD
burn and for
larger files a DVD burn, so i have them backed up twice.
With shooting Pef's and Nef's it does not take long to get a large folder, so
its mostly
Maxtor and DVD
now.
I'm thinking now that i
This looks interesting:
http://www.imaginginfo.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=3id=1641
Thanks Dave,
How long do you expect your backup copies to last?
Jostein
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So far, a back up onto a 120 gig Maxtor as well as a CD or DVD burn.For small
files a CD
burn and for
larger files a DVD burn, so i have them backed up twice.
With shooting Pef's and
Very interesting indeed. Long-life media is a good start.
If even the minimum estimate of 80 years holds, media lifetime will not be the
limiting factor.
Second question: Will there be any CD-R readers to go round in 80 years from
now?
Personal computers have been with us for 25 years, and
On 4/27/06, Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Second question: Will there be any CD-R readers to go round in 80 years from
now?
Probably only in museums landfill.
Personal computers have been with us for 25 years, and we've already passed
through several generations of storage media that can
Storage is not just for computers any more.
When CD's came out the vinyl record disappeared, you can still get
record players.
Computers have become so tied up with the whole multi-media thing that
they NEED to maintain compatibility with people's CD and DVD
collections. My DVD collection
This one time, at band camp, Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nobody includes me too :-) but I would very much like to establish
a good practice for myself.
I keep all my negatives in nice safe box.
Kevin
--
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is
That's ducky, but who will have equipment to read a
DVD in 300 years???
Rick
--- Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This looks interesting:
http://www.imaginginfo.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=3id=1641
http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW
From: Leon Altoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/04/27 Thu PM 12:59:58 GMT
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Storage is not just for computers any more.
When CD's came out the vinyl record disappeared, you can still get
Quoting David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
True. But there is usually a transition period where you can copy your
data to whatever new storage medium is coming through.
Exactly.
Whatever media one choose, it has to be renewed regularly. Question is how
often. Every five years seems to be a good
Jostein wrote:
Very interesting indeed. Long-life media is a good start.
If even the minimum estimate of 80 years holds, media
lifetime will not be the limiting factor.
Second question: Will there be any CD-R readers to go round
in 80 years from now?
Personal computers have been with
On 27 Apr 2006 at 23:41, Kevin Waterson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nobody includes me too :-) but I would very much like to establish
a good practice for myself.
I keep all my negatives in nice safe box.
Is it hermetically sealed and what's
Mark Roberts wrote:
This looks interesting:
http://www.imaginginfo.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=3id=1641
-
Some time ago when I was backing up to CDs I researched this on
the web. The consensus for archival quality seemed to point to
the gold CDs made by Mam-a -- a Japanese
On 27 Apr 2006 at 22:59, Leon Altoff wrote:
Computers have become so tied up with the whole multi-media thing that
they NEED to maintain compatibility with people's CD and DVD
collections. My DVD collection is only about 100 or so, but I know
people with over 500 DVD's and countless CDs.
General interest photos are stored on a hard drive and backed up to DVD.
Important photos are stored on two hard drives and backed up to two DVDs. It's
convenient and adequate for my needs. I burn DVDs on a regular basis while
doing something else. That way it doesn't become a burden.
Paul
On Apr 27, 2006, at 9:14 AM, Jostein wrote:
Whatever media one choose, it has to be renewed regularly. Question is
how
often. Every five years seems to be a good number to me. I gravitate
towards
this because it's a number that has been mentioned for life-time
expectancy of
both CD/DVDs and
It does..look interesting. My skipping style of reading may have missed
the method of 'pressing' vs 'burning'.
I store all CD's in individual styrene (?) cases, some clear, some
colored. I wonder if the colored cases would provide a further light
inhibiting advantage. Seems possible.
Interesting
The size of files created by PEFs (and I suppose some other raw formats)
doesn't seem particularly large or cumbersome, considering that a scanned
color 35mm file is about 140mb or so (Nikon Coolscan, 4000ppi), while a PEF
(from the DS) is only about 10mb, and as little as about 1/2 that if
On Apr 27, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I don't recall people complaining, or commenting, g
about large-sized scanned files as much as they do the smaller RAW
files.
Think of me -- the 4000 dpi scans from 6x7 clock in at well over 500mb
apiece.
What knocks me out is how my
Message -
From: Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 9:09 PM
Subject: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Dear gang,
I discovered the need more storage thread just now, by looking in the
archives. Long term storage
1) make high quality prints of the stuff you want to keep around
forever and put them into high quality storage binders.
2) digital images ...
As has been said many times before, the key to storage and archiving
of digital images is replication and maintenance, not permanence of
the media.
Id does? Why is that? I've not noticed any significant difference between
large scanned file and raw files. Maybe it's the software you're computer
is having trouble with, not specifically the files.
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Aaron Reynolds
Think of me -- the 4000 dpi scans from
I store all my photos and scans on a dedicated RAID 5 setup.In my
case, I built one using a 3ware card, my old PC, a gig-e card and
FreeBSD. Today, I'd probably buy something like the ReadyNAS NV. I
make backups to firewire disks and store those off-site.
To me, this is the only way
I would hope as lomg as a negative would hold out. I know the longevity numbers
thrown out
are from
lab tests, but i would hope as long as computers are made to read my formats,
or atleast
give me time
to upgrade them to what ever format comes along in the future.
30-50 years would be nice as
Jostein wrote:
Will there be any CD-R readers to go round in 80 years from now?
That will probably be determined by things like these gold archival
disks: If enough people and institutions use these disks or something
like them for long-term storage, then there will be a market for
equipment to
This one time, at band camp, Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it hermetically sealed and what's the fire rating?
not sure if they are hermitically sealed, but they are sealed. and the fire
rating is 2 hours. UL72 Class 350 / ECBS.S says the panel on the back.
Kind regards
Kevin
--
I have my pictures on my desktop hard drive. And since I have a laptop I am
thinking of copying pictures I don't want to lose to it as well. I could easily
lose 80-90% of my photos. :-) Only some do I really, really like.
I make backups of various picture directories to DVDs periodically. I
Its mostly a jpeg or raw thing for me Shel.
My equine work is 99.9% jpeg, so i can get a 3 day weekend on a CD assuming
700mb of data
or less.
However, if i do my personal shooting over a weekend, i might have enough pef's
or nef's
to fill 3-4
CD's, so i use dvd's to keep space in my
On Apr 27, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Id does? Why is that? I've not noticed any significant difference
between
large scanned file and raw files. Maybe it's the software you're
computer
is having trouble with, not specifically the files.
Could be -- but regardless, if the
On Apr 27, 2006, at 6:14 AM, Jostein wrote:
... However, from a consumer perspective I think it sucks big time
that you have to
migrate your archive every five years to maintain your memories.
With film,
memories could pass down through generations without much
maintenance. I can't
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And after I'm gone, well, I figure my interest in the work will
likely diminish. It will be someone else's affair as to whether it
is worth keeping around.
I think private persons have higher stakes in this than do
professionals; it's the the
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