Re this thread I recently had an interesting conversation with an acquaintance who heads up the photographic division for a regional police force. He tells me that having made the decision to go digital eighteen months ago for both scenes of crime and general evidence gathering work - they have recently made the decision to switch back to film and re-instate their wet processing department. The reason being that often the images they take have to be stored in a retrievable condition for a period of up to twenty years and their research conducted at a national level has deemed that the medium onto which the images are recorded ie CDs are unreliable both in terms of retrievably due to possibility of data corruption and the prospect of future hardware not being compatible with CD technology - which may make convictions based on photographic evidence unsafe.
Apparently they are now using Nikon F5s and Bronica 6x6s - whilst there are twenty-odd D1X bodies in a cupboard somewhere gathering dust...... Cheers Si Barber =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
