20 years working life... do you really think you want to use it after 20
years?
Remember the cameras (digital ones) 20 years ago? OK, I can fresh your
memory - recently I got 1995 Chinon ES-3000 (sorry, it's ONLY 14 years
old).
http://www.oberlehrer.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/chinon-es-3000-2.png
So I shot a card full of those "high resolution superb quality" images
praised in user manual. After that I had to find a stone-age laptop with
Win 95 (cameras PCMCIA memory card requires a image transfer driver that
works only under stone-age Win). Got the pics, saved 'em as TIFFs (to
get max quality). Then I had to use ANOTHER PCMCIA card (a normal
FAT-formatted one) to transfer those TIFFs from this electronic abacus
to modern laptop and copy 'em to USB stick (there's nowhere to put this
card at my desktop workstation). The rest (Tiff to JPEG etc) was
easy...Wanna see the result? Really? OK, you wanted it:
http://home.uninet.ee/~margus02/peso/chinon019.jpg
And now think how you may look at your todays images after 20 years...
(and how easy it will be to manage 'em)
BR, Margus
P.S. don't take this story too seriously :)
John Francis wrote:
And I *do* expect close to a 20-year working life out of this.
My *ist-D still works just fine after 5.5 years; I expect it
to make it at least to 10. My old Canon PowerShot G1 is still
delivering images (albeit now in the hands of its second owner),
and that's over eight years old.
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