Re: [Leica] Big bucks

["Francesco Sanfilippo" <fls@san.rr.com>]

That's still NOT big bucks.  65,000 images at 200KB each would fill
exactly 20 CD-R discs, with 3,250 images fitting on each disc.  You
can buy a blank CD-R (in quantity) for under $2.00.  This comes out
to be a total expense of $40 every time you want to duplicate your
entire set, and this fugure would increase by $2.00 every time you
add another 3,250 images to your portfolio.

Average the CD cost over 5 years and it costs you $8 per annum.
Of course, you need a CD-R burner, which can be had nowadays for
$200.  Average it over a 5 year period and it costs you $40 per year.
This is a total cost of $48 annually to maintain your digital archive.
If we can afford Leica, we can afford $4 a month to archive images,
n'est-ce pas?

Francesco Sanfilippo
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- ----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Big bucks


> Mike Johnston wrote:
> > >>>Worried about the longevity of the CD? So copy it every couple of
> > years.
> > We're not talking big bucks here.<<<
> >
> >
> > Oh yes we are. I've made over 65,000 negatives in my life, and I'm only
> > 42. (And not even a terribly heavy shooter.)
> >
> > --Mike
> >
>     One of the great things about Leica equipment is that nothing becomes
> obsolete. This is in stark distinction to digital electronic equipment
which
> is designed to become obsolete in "Internet time". In my mind, Leica is
the
> direct opposite to digital. Canon is where digital is at (and there are
also
> many great things about being digital). It is no big deal to change your
> lens mount every few years because you plan to buy a completely new system
> every few years regardless. So the two cameras which spend the most time
> sitting on my shelf are my Canon F-1 and my Sony Mavica, the F-1 because
it
> is sooo much louder than the EOS and has no real benefit except that it
does
> work without batteries (but I already have my M6 for that purpose :-) And
> the Mavica which serves its only purpose when I need to e-mail pictures to
> someone, or if I am giving a talk and I need to digitize something onto my
> laptop (so it is really the combo of a Polaroid and a compact scanner).
>
>     Even though CDs are somewhat cheap (say $1-2) for writeable, that's
not
> the point. Who wants to deal with figuring out what to rewrite? I just had
a
> terrific ciba print made of a 15 year old kodachrome  discovered at the
> bottom of a box! In the same box is a large computer tape I have no idea
of
> how to deal with. oh sure I *could* find a VAX somewhere and transfer it
> onto a CD but who wants to deal with that. The chrome is usable in the
same
> format as on the day it was created. The Omega D2 enlarger I use is
probably
> 25 years old and still uses the same format lightbulbs.
>
> Jonathan Borden
>
>
>