Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Mark, yes when the name "Rabiner" is in a LUG post it automatically gets put in a separate storage system ;-) ;-) ;-) Mine too! How about prints AND backed up files and negatives or transparencies? You really don't want literally hundreds of thousands of prints stacked up in your study though. Maybe better to print the ones the best ones! No guarantees that files or even negatives will be usable/readable in the future though. For the very large majority of us, It's not going to matter a whole lot! 2009/8/3 Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > > Somehow, reading this thread, and, despite marvelling at the expertise of > > this disparate group, I get the feeling more and more that Mark Rabiner > is > > right, and that it will only be prints that will survive us. A garage > full > > of hard drives made increasingly inaccessible by advancing technology > with > > future, and of course unpredictable, techno-rot will be a candidate for > > landfill. > > > Yes when my name "Rabiner" is in a LUG post it automatically gets put in a > separate storage system and lights up and says kiss me baby. > > My opinion is really this: > Negatives are better than prints for storage. > Hard drives are better than negatives. > > That's my opinion and I bet I'm right. > And I'm a photographer and I play one in a movie, > Not a TV show. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff Alles was eine gute Kamera braucht / Everything a good camera needs: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman