Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Assuming that an organization such as the New York Times stores it's digital files on CDs, how many CDs would it accumulate in a year? And how massive a task will it be to convert them all to, say, DVDs? It will be relatively simple for a home hobbiest such as myself to transfer the files from my 30 or 40 CDs to some future media, but what if I had 30000 or 40000 or perhaps some much larger number? dan c. At 12:01 PM 01-09-03 -0400, bdcolen wrote: >You don't understand the value to a news organization of going digital >because you have not been part of a daily news organization. The saving >in time and money is, ultimately, huge. And, forget the money, the >savings in time is particularly important. Going digital means being >able to sanely shoot closer to deadline - and it does not degrade the >final product. Additionally, for all the moaning and debate here about >the longevity of digital files, it is not only a good bet, it's a sure >thing, that the NYT will convert its digital photo files from media to >media, making them accessible far into the future; you're not talking >here about some photo hobbiest at his home in Akron, with his home PC >that he may not update in time to preserve his own archives. > >B. D. > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html