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Subject: [Leica] easy digital storage solutions are the problem ... the BIG problem....
From: konstantin.mihov at googlemail.com (Konstantin Mihov)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:38:35 +0200
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I think this is what the target of products such as Time Machine on the mac
is - non-photo professionals who want somethign that backs up everything.

KM

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy at 
asc.upenn.edu>wrote:

> All this talk of film Leicas being less than 5% of the market makes me
> realize how this is going to be difficult for ordinary consumers. Digital
> probably isn't a problem for anybody on this list - I have four copies of
> every digital image I've taken since 1999, and more of some of the better
> ones,  but for people who aren't photography professionals, managing a few
> thousand digital snaps, I think, quickly becomes a problem. Where do you 
> put
> them? How do you back them up? How do you find things?
>
> Digital is fantastic if you keep your photos organized and consistently
> move to the next storage medium.
>
> But what about people who aren't thinking of this? There's no stable
> equivalent, that I see, for the "ordinary" user, of stuffing a box of negs
> in the attic.
>
> What do you recommend to casual users who have digital cameras?
>
> kc
>
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