Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 4/28/02 8:17:15 AM, darkroom@ix.netcom.com writes: << Now, I'm not suggesting that for digital images, as it really isn't necessary...but I would strongly suggest storing digital images in an uncompressed format, and probably suggest TIFF, because of it's simplicity. I'm sure that there will always be programs to read JPEG etc, at least for our lifetime. I also suggest archiving them to more than one CD...and when DVD writers become less expensive (and your image library grows), archive them to DVD...and then to...whatever is the media of the time, at the time ;-) Regards, Austin >> For pro photographers and tech heads I see this as a feasible solution. I don't see my parents (if they so desired to move to digital) doing this, nor do I see my overly busy sibling doing this, or a number of other folks I know who shoot the precious shot and then throw the goods into an album not to be really thought of again. At this point, digital seems to require a bit more due diligence as well as a willingness to deal with technological obsolescence. I guess a lot of this may boil down to the question whether one is a borderline Luddite or whether you bow down to the Gods of new tech. Myself, I tend to prefer technology that doesn't make me have to think or take too much care for it to work. That's probably why I've always owned a Mac, own minolta slr's with retro controls, have a leica M etc. Basically, at the end of a long day, I'm lazy. I want to shoot shots, put them in archival neg holders and not have to worry about updating them from TIFF to JPEG to RMAX4 (or whatever the next standard will be), I don't want to have to move them from smartmedia to CD to DVD to BVD's (or whatever the next media standard will be) and have multiple copies of all, just in case my media "fails." I don't like the feeling that every few years I have to reinvest in a macplus, power mac, g3, g4, g10 or the equivalent chip standard for windoze, to upgrade my 5 1/4 floppy to a 3 1/2floppy to tape to zip to CD reader to DVD reader etc. I guess if I was independently wealthy it wouldn't bite so much, but quite frankly even if I could write off all my tech upgrades, the obsolescence aspect of digital tech bugs me. I look at it this way, I invested in a leica m and now I have an enlarger. They should last me for the rest of my life. To me, that represents a good investment in both my time as well as my money. I'm not trying to convince anyone else of my convictions, it's just the way my mind works, the financial values I hold and the way I like to do my art and spend my time. I realize that I'm a lunar type in a solar world and that in some ways my pace of life are probably slower and better suited for last century rather than this one, but I suppose that's why I still prefer the magical alchemy of light hitting silver rather than silicon. - -kim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html