Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Henning...so the specific Kodak type is called what... and where do you find the cheapest price? Thanks Steve - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 2:32 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Archival of digital images > I've had a CD writer for quite a number of years (I'm on my third one > now) and I've seen the media prices go from $20 to less than $.50. > I've had good media, bad media, media that could only be read in > certain drives etc. The only stuff that has worked consistently well > is gold surfaced media. > > Unfortunately, the only media that I've seen that always has a gold > surface is Kodak's, and it usually costs 2-4x what the cheapest > costs. But it seems really inexpensive compared with buying a stack > of 50 or 100 CD's that don't verify properly, or cause other problems. > > I also recently ran into another problem. I bought some Maxell CD-R > 700Mb which say on the box 'Branded Gold Surface'. However, the > actual color is blue-green, which in my experience is usually the > worst. They seem to work OK at present, but I'm not putting anything > on them that I want to see in 25 years. > > I'm going to stick to Kodak media from now on. > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com