Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I maintained that the cost to come close to film requires a vast >investment. and there is no guarantees that the images will last as long >and something better will come along to make my investment in digital a >lost one. What happens to your investment if a hard drive crashes, or you >have a problem in restoring a backup (If you remember to do this), or if an >essential file gets corrupted, or scientists discover some as yet unknown >problem with the current storage media, and on and on and on. My negatives >going back to the early 1900's are perfect and will be in the next 100 >years potentially. We recently had a "guru" on digital imaging give a talk at a local camera club meet. Somebody asked him how long each digital image is expected to last. His frank answer - approximately 6 months! Dan K.