Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Didier, sorry, I can't let this go ;-) -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Didier Ludwig Sent: Monday, 9 October 2006 21:56 To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Back up back up back up Dear John, agree digital files can get lost. But: - One can scratch a whole film roll when loading it into a dusty bulk cassette. You can run your Ferrari on bicycle tyres with diesel in the tank, too ;-) - One can shoot a whole roll but it was not transported. - One can ruin a whole roll when opening the camera before rewinding. or the card will fail and make the images irretrievable - One can scratch a whole roll when rolling it in the jobo spool. - One can pour the fixer in the 5-roll-jobo-tank first instead of the developer. - One can ruin 5 rolls because the developer was too much shaked and produced a foam effect. - One can ruin 5 rolls because of muddling up the developer timings. - One can ruin 5 rolls because the fixer was wrongly diluted. Too much Lagavulin before going to the darkroom? - One can ruin a neg stripe with fingerprints when scanning it. Too much Lagavulin before going to the scanner? - One can loose a box full of negs during a relocation. All hard drives WILL fail. The timing of the failure is inversely proportionate to the inconvenience it will cause you. Backups may prevent suicide but are still very inconvenient to implement. Yes, I've had to do two painful restores following HDD fails in RAID setups. Lost multiple GB's from the previous occasion. Luckily I still have the film they were all scanned from. File formats, hardware designs, media, operating system, proprietary RAW files are all significant considerations too. FWIW I do have multiple computers networked, several external drives for back ups, scanners, DVD and CD burners etc. Just supporting John on the archival advantages of film. Cheers Hoppy >Dear All, >Why all this concern about digital files. We are all Leica users here >and negatives are very archival! Stay away from that M8 too! >John _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information