You mean those Kodak PictureDisc things? I have a few of those, and found that ImageMagick can convert them to 16-bit TIFFs. In batches. :-) Jostein
Den 14. februar 2015 09:13:15 CET, skrev Malcolm Smith <[email protected]>: >Bruce Walker wrote: > >> But even relatively modern formats are effectively dead these days. >> How many of us could read an 8 inch MDS-80 floppy? A 5.25" CP/M or >MS- >> DOS floppy? Even finding a PC or Mac with a 3.5" 1.44M floppy on it >is >> non-trivial lately. In a pinch I can read 3.5" floppies, but I'd have >> to spend a couple of hours jury-rigging something together: an old PC >> from the basement, running FreeBSD and networked. > >I have tried to back up any files I've had stored on - for want of a >better description - dead media formats, to the latest method of >storage. At one point I had loads of 5.25" floppy discs and thousands >of 3.5" discs. I still have some of those from Kodak, where there was >an option of providing a disc with your processed film. I have no way >of opening those discs now, yet because I have the film, it's not >important. > >I wonder how many images will get tossed into the bin, as over the >years so many people will come across old storage media that they have >no way of opening, and memories or records of the past will disappear >forever? > >There is a certain irony to the fact in this time of continual >technological advancement, that files/images stored twenty years ago on >the hot media of the time is unreadable to most, yet you can use >negatives that were taken many decades ago and recreate (and in many >cases improve) the original with equipment bought in 2015. > >Malcolm -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
