[Leica] WAS: Ice hockey shots, NOW: SAVING DIGITAL IMges:

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

I no longer save to CD or DVD. CDs are too small and DVDs take too
long to write. It's a lot easier to mount a removable hard drive and
back up to those. I'm trying to force myself to properly keyword and
annote the images at the same time.

I feel comfortable that my operating system isn't going to scrounge my
hard drive, that it won't be infected by some virus or something.

I don't see CDs vanishing very quickly. Although you don't see many 8"
or 5.25" floppies you still see lots of of 3" out there. They are
everywhere, unlike the older removable media.

Adam


On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:17:20 -0500, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> 
wrote:
> I will be the first to admit the Kyle The Mad sold me on this
> philosophy. He told me a while back - I think shortly after he went to
> his Leica D100, that he wasn't deleting ANYTHING. At first I thought he
> was totally insane, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized
> that he was 100% correct.
> 
> Keep in mind though, Ted, that if and when CD technology changes, you
> will have to copy stuff over to the new technology. In fact, you should
> check on the estimated longevity for the CD's and copy them BEFORE you
> get to that point.
> 
> B. D.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Ted Grant
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 1:11 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] WAS: Ice hockey shots, NOW: SAVING DIGITAL IMges:
> 
> B. D. Colen offered:
> 
> > If I may interject two thoughts here -
> > 1. After making that first cut - and after waiting - file ALL the
> > negs; 2. Same goes for digital. Save EVERYTHING that is not grossly
> > under or over exposed, blurred beyond hope, or similarly out of focus.
> >
> > If people would treat digital files with the same slavish respect they
> 
> > show their negatives, the future of digital images wouldn't be in
> > doubt. Yes, you will have to update media and restore them from time
> > to time. But so what. Just save the same things, and re-save them
> > every so often. It's neither rocket science nor particularly heaving
> > lifting.<<<<<<<
> 
> Tina Manley added:
> >>That's why I never delete anything unless it is totally
> unsalvageable.  Digital storage space is cheap!  Of course, I may never
> get the time to go back and look at those in the "maybe" category, but
> at least they'll be there if I want to review them from the nursing home
> in twenty years or so!<<<<
> 
> Hi Tina & B.D.,
> Hey folks I'm a slow learner. ;-) But your messages are ringing clearly
> through the ear acoustic enhancers. Besides my grandson has now taught
> me
> how to burn stuff to CD's quickly without a lot of fussing, so instead
> of
> deleting secondary images to keep the hard drive cleaned off, now I can
> load
> all the so-so 2nd cut photos to a CD for a look later.
> 
> And as you point out it's no big deal to burn another CD when time moves
> on.
> 
> thanks,
> ted
> 
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