Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry, In the absence of strong electrical fields or magnetic fields a really long time, much longer than a DVD. There is a flash HD replacement whose MTBF in milspec environment is over 63 years; this is in constant use. In less demanding test situations MTBF is over 180 years. So, as the cost comes down flash memory will be what we all use. On 5/3/07, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com