On 31/1/03 2:47 am, "Tim Wheeler" wrote: > For years I have stored negs in glassine bags, and continue the same > filing system with CD's in the same 7x5 bags. > > My oldest negs look OK. Will the CD's be the same in 20 years?
Tim I'm not really a great believer in CD archiving (for reasons of size and speed of access) However I think your thinking is slightly wrong, in five years time (or less), you can copy the CD's to another media (whatever is new at the time), without any loss of quality. Your negs have a finite life, there is no copying them :-( they will die eventually :-( Obviously we are not talking about scanning the negs etc. as that turns them into CD's again. Plus you can make multiple copies of your CD's, but only ever have one neg! Regards Paul (no offence meant) -- Paul Tansley Fashion & Beauty Photography London +44 (0) 7973 669584 http://www.paultansley.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
