[Leica] drobo question

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> Hi Mark, yes when the name "Rabiner" is in a LUG post it automatically gets
> put in a separate storage system ;-) ;-) ;-)
> Mine too!
> How about prints AND backed up files and negatives or transparencies?
>  You really don't want literally hundreds of thousands of prints stacked up
> in your study though. Maybe better to print the ones the best ones!
> No guarantees that files or even negatives will be usable/readable in the
> future though. For the very large majority of us, It's not going to matter 
> a
> whole lot!
> 
> 
> 2009/8/3 Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> 
>>> Somehow, reading this thread, and, despite marvelling at the expertise of
>>> this disparate group, I get the feeling more and more that Mark Rabiner
>> is
>>> right, and that it will only be prints that will survive us. A garage
>> full
>>> of hard drives made increasingly inaccessible by advancing technology
>> with
>>> future, and of course unpredictable, techno-rot will be a candidate for
>>> landfill.
>> 
>> 
>> Yes when my name "Rabiner" is in a LUG post it automatically gets put in a
>> separate storage system and lights up and says kiss me baby.
>> 
>> My opinion is really this:
>> Negatives are better than prints for storage.
>> Hard drives are better than negatives.
>> 
>> That's my opinion and I bet I'm right.
>> And I'm a photographer and I play one in a movie,
>> Not a TV show.
>> 
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 


I think that digital back up files on hard disk are going to be usable in my
future a thing I'm planning also on having. Its good to have both. A future.
And your files and negs right on the left of you in your Stratalounger.
My main source on the hard drive thing for my pix are Brian Reid's posts on
the LUG for around ten years now. He gives off this air of knowing what he's
talking about I don't know maybe I'm in trouble and don't know it. I hear
this little bell of "truth" and I go for it.
After I'm dead I'm sure my stuff will be stored carefully in the basement of
miniature golf putting zoo in Staten Island. Till the big flood.

Printing is not a backup thing. Never has been. Never will be. I learned
that my first year printing in my darkroom age 13 1965 in a book on
photography I read. Lootens on Photographic Enlarging and Print Quality J.
Ghislain Lootens . People don't read photography books any more they Google
it and bother people on chat lists for tidbits.

If I'm in a wheelchair I'll just play with Photoshop and print I have enough
stuff right now for the duration.
That duration if go by the decimal system I'm planning on living to be 100.
That's 2051, January.
-41 Y's & 6 M's away says Filemaker DB which I should update; and back up
onto big floppies.

Wishful thinking maybe but I believe in round numbers, thinking big and
planning ahead.

I think its hard to be finished making a photograph if you've not made a
photograph.
If you've not made a photograph how can you be finished making it?

Photography and making photographs.... Same thing.

Photography and making jpg's.... Not really.

Mark William Rabiner