[Leica] RAW archiving

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

Not that I am a specialist on this, but you'd not be going wrong if
you used Lightroom to off-load your cards, place your files in a
library and convert the RAW to DNG in the process.

Figure how much disk space you will never need and buy two at that
size. Work with external disks. Computers come and go and it is a pain
if you have your data stored on in internal disk. They're good for
booting and storing applications, but they are less than ideal for
storing your data.

Daniel

On Dec 8, 2007 5:35 PM, Aram Langhans <leicar@q.com> wrote:
> I have started to shoot in RAW mode and I am wondering what to do as far as
> archiving my "negatives".  Since there are so many different flavors of 
> RAW,
> what should be done to insure they can be read again in say 5 years?  What
> should they be converted to yet not loose the ability to work on them in 
> the
> way a RAW file does?
>
> Aram