Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:35 PM 10/2/2006, you wrote: >Film doesn't crash and cause a deletion of a few hours' work. Sure, it can >be lost, damaged, etc, but digital media has it's flaws as well. If we are talking about professional photography here, you would never worry about crashing because you back up continually. This is just my personal experience, but I had 20 years of experience in the darkroom before I switched to digital and I can tell you that I lost many, many more photos in the darkroom than I have in the lightroom; and the big difference is that if I lost anything in the darkroom it was gone - forever - no retrieval. One mistake in mixing developer or fixer and your photos are toast. With digital there is always RAW. Save your RAW files in two or three places and you never have to worry again. They are there to be developed however technology has developed. I have RAW files on file on hard-drives and DVDs and CDs. I have more confidence that those files will be accessible for many years than I do the 11 lateral filing cabinets full of slides and negatives that I hope to scan and convert to digital ASAP. I don't trust the security of the film in the filing cabinets! :-) Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com