Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Film is Archival
From: Slobodan Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:23:46 -0700
References: <BB1A4A66.8CB3%eric@jphotog.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20030622130408.02208420@pacific.net.sg>

A few weeks ago, I went to drop off a zip disk at a publication. Guess
what, they'd just changed over to new computers, with no zip drives. We
finally found a drive buried in a corner in the production area. Another
dead technology!
Slobodan Dimitrov


D Khong wrote:
> 
> We all cannot win. 5.25" floppies have gone the way of the dinosaurs. 3.5"
> floppies are beginning to gasp in desperation and will soon expire. So we
> think that CD-ROMs and DVDs will survive. Heck, give it another few years
> and it might be a different story. Bottom line is that the IT industry
> needs to survive and whatever new stuffs that they dish out  for the
> consumers' benefit might actually be for it's own benefit.
> 
> Digital photography is in vogue. Images are free...capture and trash as you
> like. But how often do you actually spend the time to trash the rubbish
> that you capture for free? So you save the good ones, you catalog them
> nicely, you upgrade the storage system from time to time. See how often you
> have actually forgotten to do all that. Then it becomes a chore and the
> homework becomes a pain the the a**.  Very soon, even you do not know where
> that great shot was kept or there seems to be too many great shots to
> remember.
> 
> Just airing my thoughts......nothing serious.
> 
> Dan K.
> 
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In reply to: Message from Eric Welch <eric@jphotog.com> (Re: [Leica] Film is Archival)
Message from D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg> (Re: [Leica] Film is Archival)