On Lun, 16 mar 1998 21:41, Frank van Lindert <mailto:lindertv@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
>All my estimates are -very- rough.
>Paper, also paper pictures, will live for a century, maybe two, at
>least
>Color and b/w negatives will have roughly the same lifetime, maybe
>longer.
>Magnetic media (floppies, hard diks, tapes) don't survive more than
>5-10 years at maximum. After that (or much better before that) you
>will have to rewrite them, maybe to new media. And again. And again.
>Maybe the CD will behave better, but that is still uncertain. In
>particular the oxidation process of the aluminium layer in the CD is a
>very uncertain factor here.
>Anyway, this is another reason why IMHO film will remain for a long
>time yet.
>
You are in tune with Olympus "Power MO" brochure? They say the same things,
prising their MO for this very reason. They claim their MO are 3 times more
durable than CDs.
BTW when offering a lens on ebay, would be a trouble for you to tell the
friends before? :-)))
Marco
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