T Rittenhouse wrote: > A thing I never seem to see mentioned about archive storage of your images > is the fact you can keep first generation quality copies of digital images > at physically diverse locations. For instance you keep one CD in your > computer room, one in your safe deposit box at the bank, another at your > cabin in the mountains, another at you mom's house on the other coast, and > one at a friend's house overseas. There is next to no chance that > all those > copies will be simultaneously destroyed. You can keep your > negatives in only > one location if something happens to them there they are gone > forever. I can > tell you that from first hand experience.
Graywolf, I remember some time back you writing about this horrific tragedy. It is something I have thought about. As I send my films off to a lab I like for development, and the majority of the film I use is slide, I get them to send me a CD with the images on, which periodically get dropped off at my in-laws in Scotland for safe keeping. They then also have access to the pictures of our children growing up - a safety net and use. Negatives are kept in a *few hours heat resistant small safe - don't know how many and don't want to find out* but until I acquire a good scanner, there is no back up for these, and it is something always nagging away at me. A good reminder. Your terrible experience is one I am sure we will all learn from. Thanks, Malcolm
