Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/06

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Subject: [Leica] Leica's April 24th announcement - place your bets!
From: jplaurel at gmail.com (Jim Gmail)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 16:23:22 -0800
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And will anyone be able to view the proprietary RAW files people are 
producing in 50 years. Ask yourself whether you still have any means to 
access material left behind on 5.25" and 3.5" floppies, much less Zip or Jaz 
drives.

-Jim

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 6, 2014, at 15:31, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at 
> icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 6, 2014, at 5:09 PM, Doug Herr wrote:
>> 
>> They had to cart all that film around with no opportunity for backups and 
>> if there's no processing available on the trip there's the risk of the 
>> images being damaged by heat or accidental exposure.
> 
> I have lost precious films and prints to fires, floods, mildew and mice.
> 
> It's much more difficult to back up negatives and transparencies to 3 
> locations
> than it is to back up hard drives.
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser 
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> 
> 
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