Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]pgs@thillana.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick Sobalvarro) wrote: > 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. And who is going to do this copying? Look what has happened to images created on negative media; for the great majority of the photographs created in the last 150 years, the original negative has been lost or destroyed. You're expecting your descendants to do better? Who do you know who makes backup copies of their home videos? There is no substitute for an *intrinsically* archival medium - counting on continuous human intervention in an uncertain world isn't going to work. It's just throwing history down the toilet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- jack@purr.demon.co.uk - Jack Campin, 2 Haddington Place, Edinburgh EH7 4AE