Greetings Simon, Their conclusions are ridculous. An archived JPEG file will always be retrievable from any type of disk or drive. There are already programs that will recognize a JPEG and retrieve it from dead drives and supposedly unreadable CDs or other dable media the file is on. The FBI does it all the time.
Have A Happy Day, Phillip Buzard [EMAIL PROTECTED] San Ysidro, CA, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 6:35 AM Subject: [PRODIG] Re: The Future is Film ? was Digital in difficult conditions. > > 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 > =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
