One analysis: Believe this to be a situation where a HD is NOT the
answer. Even at today's prices, a HD becomes expensive storage for many
rolls of film. For storage of flatbed scans of large size I use CHEAP
CDROM @ circa 700MB even if I must use more than one blank for a set of
film strips. Believe there are two answers, immediate and evolving in
to long term:
1. Out of necessity in the absence of a film scanner, I use an Epson
Photo scanner to first provide a proof sheet of the sheet of 7 slots x
6 frames long strips. Then, select keepers for high matrix scans which
are transferred to a CDROM. I keep the CDROM(s), the original film
strips and the proof sheet together for future scans of the original
data if desired. This 'management' storage works now at low cost.
2. Coming soon is a blue laser based CDROM (at circa 9 G if I remember
as read) using the cheap CDROM blanks. In DVD format the blue laser
provides ~ 30 G albeit at a higher cost for the blanks. These units
are reportedly on sale in Japan at high prices, but it is expected the
price / elasticity curve will land them on your doorstep in the near
future.
Might add that I do all my proof sheets using PhotoGrade with a
LaserWriter. For selection, this works better than printing in color
since 300dpi gray scale proofs are quickly printed on normal 92 bright
paper. Doubt that economical means will be available in the
foreseeable future to store all the film based data generated by the
typical member of the List. Unlike digital camera data images which
must be stored on digital media or lost, film will remain a practical
storage medium for many years. NMR or holographic based storage with
orders of magnitude higher density are realistic promises, but not for
this week. Perhaps the nicest advantage of available optical storage
is the preservation shelf life. HD lifetimes are much shorter than
film.
Hope these thoughts help.
Bill
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 02:08 PM, Jeff Keller wrote:
To edit a 200M file in Photoshop either requires some fair computing
power or a lot of patience. Storing a roll of slide scans eats up about
7G of space. Extra hard drives would disappear pretty fast. So far I'm
using film as the storage medium and thinking about what can be done
differently. (Any experienced suggestions?)
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