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> [Original Message] > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > > When I read about what people are doing to secure their digitized and > > digital files I realize that I could never do all that on a regular > > basis. > > I really don't do much to "secure" my digital imagery that I don't > just do as a matter of course in backing up my computer data. All my > financial records, notes, writings, etc are just as valuable to me. I > back the whole thing of them up on a regular basis, the photos go > along for the ride. My life isn't on the computer, it's not organized around it. All the records i need to secure are elsewhere. > > > > Film just comes back from the lab or my kitchen, gets sleeved in > > any one of > > a couple of ways, and the sleeved film is just put into an envelope > > with > > the pic info written on it. Then i just throw 'em into a file cabinet > > where they remain until i want them for some reason. Worst case > > scenario > > is that I thumb through a few envelopes. > > I have thousands of negatives like that. Just stuffed into pages and > crammed into corners, boxes, etc. Have no idea where to find > anything. With my digital images, I can find anything out of > everything in a matter of moments. We're different - not only can i find what i want in a matter of moments, but somehow I can remember specific frames I shot thirty years ago. My stuff, while not highly organized, isn't strewn about. All negs are in one file cabinet except for the ones I'm working with. There is a semblance of order to them. > > This digital thing is no time or money saver for me. > > I'm not going to reenter that debate. However, I know from my records > over the past decade that film and processing were costing me upwards > of $1500-2000 per year, and that money now goes into improvements > elsewhere in my photography. It's not a debate. In order to do ~most or all of what others are doing~ wrt storage, backup, transportation and downloading of images, I'd have to buy a lot of gear that I wouldn't ordinarily buy. People are traveling with laptops, image tanks, buying portable CD burners, and so on. I don't know what all else, but none of those things are needed in my life. I'm not a computer geek, or even a computer aficionado. I'm also a minimalist .... the less I have to travel with, the less I have to think about, the freer I feel and the happier i am. Others don't mind carrying more gear. Not having made a detailed analysis of cost/benefits (totally not my style) I'm willing to bet that keeping up with the hardware and software that some people are using in order to stay current with their digital imaging would cost pretty darned close to what film and processing costs me. > > Y'know what I miss about having my pics on a CD, DVD, or HDD? I miss > > holding the negs up to the light to see what they look like. > > Nostalgia. Pleasure ... like writing with a fine pen, watching a movie on a large screen in a nice theater v on a TV set attached to a high tech TIVO system, reading a favorite book in hard cover v paper back. > > I just connect up an archive HD, pick a random selection from > whatever year/batch I want to skim, and tell the computer to give me > a slide show. If want to sit in the living room, I login via the > wireless network... My computers are *always* running anyway ... they > have a lot of work to do all the time. Again, we're different. You have computers, I essentially have one computer. Yours is always running, I'd rather mine just sat quietly in a corner. A lot of people here are tied into computers in their work, so they may have a lot of gear anyway, and enjoy their machines. I don't care that much for the impositions the computer makes on my life, however small or large those impositions may be.
