Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On May 3, 2007, at 10:48 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > On 5/3/07, Leonard Taupier <len-1@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Larry, >> >> It may be worse then that. One of my son's older friends was given a >> Nikon D50 when his old Pentax bit the dust. He only looks at the >> photos on the little camera LCD. When the card finally gets full of >> images, he just buys a new card. > > > Actually, I've considered that as a manner of archiving back-up, > since cards > are getting so cheap. > > You could put each one in a slide sheet, and mark it as to dat, then > file. You can get about 500 jpegs or 180 raw on a 2 gig card. > That's > still way cheaper than film. > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny Interesting idea. Chips cost less than $20/GB these days. That's the cost of about 3 rolls of film. Does anyone have an idea how long a filled flash chip will retain images? Larry Z