Rob said: > All media has limitations, if you want the best out of anything you have to > exercise current best storage/file maintenance practice to ensure its longevity > its not rocket science (well not at the user end anyhow). > > In any case I'm sure you will also hear the other arguments which go something > like; who will care when you are gone anyhow? (not that I agree entirely with > this stance either but it's a valid perspective :-)
I believe the best idea is: For film images, keep the negatives in the safest place practical and also scan the really important stuff and keep the digital files in the safest manner practical; for digital images, print the really important stuff and keep in the safest place practical (archival version of the shoeboxes under the bed) as well as preserving the digital files in the safest manner practical. Which, since we can't do that with thousands of images shot machine-gun style with digital cameras, means we're down to some major editing. It IS a shame, though, that so many folks persist in leaving all their images on a single computer hard drive, to be lost in one fell swoop when there's a technical problem. Burning a backup CD (or two) or using a removeable hard drive (or both) is not at all a difficult precaution to take. ERN
