Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In my garage is a box of sound recordings -- archived on wire. I don't know what is on them. What is the chance of me going to considerable expense to have them converted? Same problem with digital photo recording. Ken Wilcox At 6:13 AM -0800 2/7/0, Gib Robinson wrote: >Maybe I missed a bit of the Kodachrome/E6 debate but I didn't hear any >mention of photo CD's as a way to preserve slides you want to keep. Whatever >the life span of current E6 is, there are still many ways to lose slides >besides the aging process. Now we have pretty good digital means to preserve >them. For around $2.00 per image you can get a digital file that will >produce a good print up to 8x10. For about $15 you can get a BIG file for >big prints. Those prices will clearly drop. Since disk storage is pretty >cheap and getting cheaper, you can transfer those CD images to a hard >drive/JAZ drive, optical disk or whatever and keep them around for many >years. > DO NOT use the reply fuction! Address any response to wilcox@tir.com - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> <kwilcox@gfn.org>