Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark: I'm not saying that digital images cannot be converted to new media. I am saying that many will not for a variety of reasons. Do you really expect that 15 years from now that CDs will be in use and that tha hardware/software to read them will be easily available? Want to buy some 8 track tapes? Ken Wilcox At 10:53 AM 8/8/99 -0700, you wrote: >Ken Wilcox wrote: >> >> At 10:36 PM 8/5/99 +1000, you wrote: >> >Hey guys, >> > >> >Anybody going to stand up for the darkroom? >> >> I have no intention of switching to digital so I can't comment on the >> supposed "advantages." But then I don't have to meet deadlines or produce >> huge quantities of prints. >> >> I do have a long term concern with digital- that of longevity. I have a box >> full of wire recordings in my garage. Can anyone "convert" them? Tried >> reading an 8" floppy lately? >> >> Yes, I know that digital storage can be converted to new media when storage >> devices change. The question is "Will they be converted"? I suspect than >> many fine images will be lost. >> >> Ken Wilcox >They are now being burned onto CD's for a buck just like music is played on and >Zip's and Jazz Drives all Media which upgrades fluidly. If you had some Tiffs on >some floppies and went out and got an iMac with no floppy you'd have to bring it >to Kinkos or somewhere to put them onto a Zip or whatever you had. So no stuff >wont get lost that way. >But it is magnetic media so if a nuke goes off or you put them down near a >magnetic thing like a speaker it could get erased. And they would just gradually >disappear like everything does anyway. >Mark Rabiner > - ------------------ Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits LAW LHSA MEA <wilcox@gusta.net>