Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Brick worte, >Here in Silicon Valley, numerous storage manufacturers (Conners, Segate, >etc.) are nearly ready to introduce TeraByte disk drives. And within >another couple of years, terabyte drives will be small enough to fit in >notebook computers. A terabyte is 1000 gigabytes (10 to the 12th power >bytes. A trillion bytes). Within five years, storage methods, whether on >media, silicon, or organic in nature, will surpass anything you can >presently fathom. As digital technology progresses, receptors become higher >in resolution and faster, lossless compression and massive storage will >progress as well. The need for something fuels the fire to develop it. >Hope all you USA LUGgers had your fill of either Turkey or Tofurkey. Right you are, of course. A friend who retired from Kodak R&D told me that for years now they've had the capability of writing digital data accurately _on the molecular level_! (How many molecules on the surface of a CD platter?) The problem, he said, is manufacturing a drive that can _read_ it back accurately, and pricing such a drive at anywhere near an affordable level. Makes sense to me. So what's the next word after terabyte (1000 terabytes)? My vote is for gazigabyte, but I'm sure someone already has something more technical and rational -- and boring -- ready to go. Anyone? (I've been asking my computer science colleagues for a while, and no one has had an answer yet.) And Kari wrote in a later message, >I don't know much about digital imaging but I've seen the following >estimate a few times: a 35mm frame of Velvia has about 64 megabytes >of useful information. "Useful" I think referring to how close >shades human eye can distinguish. I find this a fascinating question as well. The "old" Kodak Premier Imaging Station scanned 35mm in at 70MB, but the new Kodak RFS scanners I'm now using (both 3570 and 2035) max out at 18MB. Can someone tell us what size file the Leica S1 station scans in at? Kari may well be right about 64MB, but I have to say that the dye sub prints I made of (Leica M6) 35mm Ektachrome, at about 16MB each, look fine in the show they're in right now, and are next to conventional C prints. And so far, no one seems to have noticed any difference. And thanksgiving dinner was wonderful, sans turkey or tofu, but with an array of delightful dishes and loved ones around the table. Hope yours was and is too, whether or not you celebrate this US holiday. cheers Bill Bill Barrett St. Louis barrettb@webster.edu (preferred address for personal mail) http://www.webster.edu/~barrettb