On 10/14/2004 at 5:00 PM Winsor Crosby wrote:
>On Oct 14, 2004, at 1:10 PM, iwert wrote:
>> What is your experience?
>
>Ah well. I do think I have improved my glass even with zooms, but the
>whole electronic gizmo may not be as trusty, but so far so good. It is
>certainly easier to take a good picture.
This is interesting. Could you elaborate on why it is easier for you to take a
good picture?
>>>
>>> Wow. Small negatives. You can put a lot of high resolution images on a
>>> CDRom for less than a buck and more on a DVD. And even more cheaply on
>>> an external hard drive.
>>>>
>> So true, but CD's have a lifetime of about 10 years, DVD's a bit more,
>> and
>> hard drives are not to be trusted. I've learned this the hard way.
>> Archiving
>> for our office. Luckily these are images. Try to read an old cad file
>> from
>> 1993... bad luck.
>> And Colour calibration, and, and,... Digital IS a lot more then the
>> camera
>> alone. Luckily my instinct for colour output isn't that bad!
>
>True. Archiving is the most worrisome part of digital. But archiving
>film is not so great either. I have my share of faded, fungus eaten
>slides from thirty plus years ago. And archival, acid free boxes for
>them cost a fortune. I am unable to afford a cooled, humidity
>controlled environment for them. Hard disks have become the cheapest
>mode of storage I think. It is easy to double up so that if one fails
>you can replace it and copy your duplicate disk to it. And the images
>don't fade or get fungus damage at all. With the continuing advances in
>post processing the images will only get better over time instead of
>worse. Adobe has recently announced their own raw file standard which
>will probably gradually be adopted by everyone lessening possibility of
>having unreadable raw files in the future.
For all the money spent on a DSLR, computer hardware including media, software,
etc., I could easily afford a sufficient amount of climate-controlled storage.
Wine coolers could easily be modified as necessary.
Earl
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