[Leica] easy digital storage solutions are the problem ... the BIG problem....

[spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)]

Make prints of the pictures they like and stick it in a box. This is still 
the best way the average person can archive pictures. Or if they want to get 
fancy, make a slide or negative from the digital image.

All the other (technological) solutions has unexpected side effects or are 
affected by things the average Joe don't want to care about such as PC dies, 
HDD disk crash, server crash, DVD becomes coasters, data centre catches 
fire, online storage business goes bankrupt,...

Regards,
Spencer

On Mar 30, 2010, at 12:33, Kyle Cassidy 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?
>