[Leica] So much for "film is forever"

[Clive Moss]

Not sure what a "electric memory device" is - but I have a couple of disks
full of digital files that began life in the late 90s and and are still
fine.

Flickr and Facebook will provide the equivalent of the shoe box of old
negatives and prints - and will show no fading.

I spread my stuff over Smugmug, Flickr, and Facebook, with a smidgen of
Geni for family archive kind of stuff. It may not all survive, but some
will. My kids and grandkids are computer savvy enough to cope and pass them
along to the next generations. They will not know what to do with the boxes
of negatives, slides, and prints that I still have - unless I get around to
digitizing them.


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Clive
http://clive.moss.net


On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Douglas Nygren via LUG <lug at leica-users.org
> wrote:

> I read this past week tht digital files start to deteriorate as early as
> within 7 days if stored in a turned off electric memory device.
> So the new technology is not all it was cracked up to be.It may have
> killed film, but it is destroying itself as you read this.
> A friend who ran a film processing and printing business once said to me
> that one consequence of the digital revolution will be that people in the
> future won't have a shoe box filled with old negatives to go through and
> find pictures of loved ones. Sic transit gloria mundi.
> Doug
>
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