Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Are we leaving out of the equation the fact the tens of millions of people now are putting their pix or movies or sounds into hard disks they can not make them fast or cheap enough and these tens of millions of people are all going to be wanting to see their pix, movies and audio in twenty years ore more or less? -- Mark R. > From: Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:34:44 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Brian's Presentation > > successful digital longevity faces at least three competing risks: 1) > physical media deterioration or failure, 2) hardware interface obsolescence > and 3) software format obsolescence (both image file format and filesystem > standard). Any one of them by themselves could relegate your images into > oblivion. i think the simplest metaphor is to imagine a clock that starts > every time you lay a bit anywhere, on a hard disk, an external drive, a DVD, > a flash drive. When that clock shows 5 years has elapsed, at least one of > those three risk factors is going to be sufficiently elevated that prudence > would demand a new generation copy on a contemporary medium and contemporary > format. the paradigm is different from the "cool, dry, dark" archive model > that worked so well for analog. in digital we need to "stir the bits" by > copying to keep them fresh. -rei On 08/14/2011 12:06 PM, Tina Manley > wrote: > For those who are not on Facebook: > > > *http://www.leica-users.org/NYL<http://www.leica-users.org/NYLUG-2011.pdf>* > > *?UG-2011.pdf<http://www.leica-users.org/NYLUG-2011.pdf>* > * > * > * > * > > Scary, but true!! > > > Tina _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information