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Subject: [Leica] easy digital storage solutions are the problem ... the BIG problem....
From: simon.apekop at gmail.com (simon jessurun)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:06:31 +0200
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most people here, where broadband is quite common , have a harddisk wired to
their router things like  the MD 253 from sitecom being populair.
These are then used to store movies and serve as a backup for all connected
devices.
Usually these contain software to enable download from the web directly
without any computers running.
my 2 cents
simon

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Konstantin Mihov <
konstantin.mihov op googlemail.com> wrote:

> I think this is what the target of products such as Time Machine on the mac
> is - non-photo professionals who want somethign that backs up everything.
>
> KM
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy op asc.upenn.edu
> >wrote:
>
> > All this talk of film Leicas being less than 5% of the market makes me
> > realize how this is going to be difficult for ordinary consumers. Digital
> > probably isn't a problem for anybody on this list - I have four copies of
> > every digital image I've taken since 1999, and more of some of the better
> > ones,  but for people who aren't photography professionals, managing a
> few
> > thousand digital snaps, I think, quickly becomes a problem. Where do you
> put
> > them? How do you back them up? How do you find things?
> >
> > Digital is fantastic if you keep your photos organized and consistently
> > move to the next storage medium.
> >
> > But what about people who aren't thinking of this? There's no stable
> > equivalent, that I see, for the "ordinary" user, of stuffing a box of
> negs
> > in the attic.
> >
> > What do you recommend to casual users who have digital cameras?
> >
> > kc
> >
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