Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, if you are using scanned images as your archives, you should not worry about the durability of electronic media. The medium (magtape, CD, etc.) on which your digitized photographs are stored does not have to last as long as you want the photographs to last! It only has to last until the next generation of digital media. Then you copy the digitized photographs from the old medium to the new medium. With very high probability, the copy is every bit as good as the original digitized image. That's the magic of digital media and error-correcting codes and all that stuff. It's not like making an analog copy (like an internegative). Also, the copying is not expensive, because (a) the digitization is what cost money -- copying files on a computer costs very little, and (b) the digital storage that your photographs occupy will be much much cheaper by the time the next generation of digital media comes along. -Patrick Sobalvarro