Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Print Techniques
From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 06:16:36 +0000

>I maintained that the cost to come close to film requires a vast
>investment. and there is no guarantees that the images will last as long
>and something better will come along to make my investment in digital a
>lost one. What happens to your investment if a hard drive crashes, or you
>have a problem in restoring a backup (If you remember to do this), or if an
>essential file gets corrupted, or scientists discover some as yet unknown
>problem with the current storage media, and on and on and on. My negatives
>going back to the early 1900's are perfect and will be in the next 100
>years potentially.

We recently had a "guru" on digital imaging give a talk at a local camera
club meet.  Somebody asked him how long each digital image is expected to
last.  His frank answer - approximately 6 months!

Dan K.