At 05:39 AM 3/9/2006, you wrote: >The problem I see is not so much storage but technology. Say you store >your CDs or DVDs (or tapes, flash cards, whatever) in a proper manner, >what kind of device are you going to use in 20 years from now to read >them? Exactly why my strategy is continually moving the data. Disk drives are relatively cheap, and about as fast a transfer as you can get. One of the reasons I also appreciate that Canon raw files are compressed to some degree.
>Take a print or a slide from 40 years ago (or more) and you don't need >anything special to look at them... Yes, and I have boxes and boxes of them. Personally I'm glade I am no longer accumulating slides. With slides it is important to edit well also, and with a large number, I store them unmounted and use Wess mounts only on the very best, those get scanned. But fungus and time, divorce, etc, and they can disappear also. The trouble we go through to preserve fleeting moments of time. Wayne * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
