Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's because people are having different sort of debate. The question isn't about the longevity of a particular medium. The question is about the value of the information. Here's a simple example: your great-grandma died a hundred years ago. There is absolutely nothing left from her except 2 badly damaged B&W photos. Chances are you will treasure them. OTOH, your great-grandson finds 2 terabytes of data from you, and another 4 petrabytes from each of his forbears, he has trouble find his own son's birthday picture from 3 years ago, what's the chance of him looking through your gigabytes of files? On the third hand, we are all dust anyway. Who cares if anyone look at our stuff, ever again? On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I agree Frank and this issue has come up on the LUG three times a year for > a > decade and gets resolved every time. ?Its like Groundhog Day "I got you > babe > - ?but my captures are going to disappear!" I'd recommend those with qualms > about the ?viability of digital photography print out the LUG archives and > wall paper your bedroom with them . > And get a yellow highlighter pen And some scotch guard. > And cheer up! -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963