In a message dated 7/27/2005 4:03:23 PM Central Standard Time,
tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Check out your E6 is 10 years.
>
> It will have deteriorated. But you will be able to read it.
>
>> I maintain three copies of my keepers. Two
>> on disk and one on CD/DVD. If I have to convert I will.
>
> I have important digital data. Looking after it and preserving it is a
> real nuisance. I now can't read my old Nota Bene files and my WordPerfect
> 5.1 ones are difficult, too.
TIFF? I'm pretty confident it will be supported. If not, I'll do a batch
conversion.
Tom, 90% of the people using digital cameras today will not be able to make
that conversion, if it is required. Casual observance of digital shooters I
see leads me to believe that the point is irrelevant, however. Only committed
photographers like those on this list seem to back up their work. Of course,
people can and do lose their negatives and slides. As far as justifying a
digital purchase, it really is a moot point. Once purchased, most of us can't
go
back to film. We've sold our gear to buy new stuff. It's too late to lament
our purchase and wish for the old gear. Convince one's self that the purchase
makes sense and move one. I just purchased a 20D kit for my daughter. (No
flames please. The college she will attend next year has a small inventory of
EOS gear to use.) Add to that the new laptop. And printer. The cost is
outlandish, but it is the price one pays to play in photography's future. Her
curriculum is digital SLR based. We shot side by side last week in Colorado.
Her
with the 20D and me with the OM's. Quality difference? Not that we can see.
Comparing 13" x 19" prints of the same scene reveals differences, but it is
difficult for us to say one print is better than the other. We used different
lenses, different exposure values, one print is from a scanned transperancy
printed at BWC Lab and the other printed from an Epson 2400. I guess the
biggest difference is one print came from a 15 year old OM4T and 90 macro and
the
other print from a very expensive recent purchase.
Gary Faulkenberry
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