Angel Ramos wrote: > This is something that the > digital camera comunity has to take into account. This > generation will loose their family history if they have most > of the pictures saved in their > family PC's hard drives. I can still make copies of the pictures my > mother took of me when I was born, raised etc etc ( negative, > positives film!). Wait 5 or 10 years from now. There are > going to be a lot of people without those memorable moments > because a "Hard Drive where dad had all the pictures is gone" > or the CD where it was stored can not be read, etc etc. > Hope you can get the data back.
Whenever I see a post like this, the digital storage technology gives me a shudder. I'm fortunate that I don't take a vast amount of photos, and those that I know before I go out I want to keep, go on slide or B&W film. It's an easy choice for me, where I would have used colour print film, I use the *ist D. Most of these pictures have a quick use by date, things you wish to send via the net to family etc. It would be a huge pain to lose them, but it wouldn't be the end of the world, as I always keep the important things on film and for big family events take two cameras. I haven't had a problem yet and I am convinced that these storage issues are holding me back from really exploring digital photography. I've had digital images for ages, never been a problem, always retrieved them easily and yet I can't bring myself to trust them enough that I will still be able to view them ten years from now. Yet I know my slides from the early 70s are OK. What I want is digital flexibility and film storage certainties. All this proves is that a photographer can have it all and, darn it, it's still not enough!! Malcolm
