Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> The most archival media out there is probably still--film! But if I had a > bunch of digital images to store, I'd either keep 'em on PhotoCD or put > them on a high-quality CD-R in plain-vanilla ISO 9660 format in some > widely-used, non-proprietary and non-compressed format--TIFF perhaps? Also > consider archiving software which can read it. Well your film is, of course, your master image and so retaining it would seem to be your first line of defense. On the digital side just know for sure that any format is vulnerable over a period of years. Donšt' use proprietary formats for storing images. The more open the file spec, the better. TIFF sounds good to me. Ten years from now we'll be chuckling at CD-R. Soooooo limiting. DVD-R is beginning to arrive now. We'll be over 5 G and under $1k by the end of the year, under $500 in 2002 if not before. Then double layer...and then who knows? There's no end to the growth curve in sight. I'd expect 100 G personal storage in 10 years as a consumer product: ie throw-away. We're not going to run out of CPU cycles either. But the software which compressed images might forget how to read old stuff. Just look at people who need to go back and read PageMaker 1 files -- now THAT is a hassle! Adam Bridge