May not be comparable, but throughout the '80s I recorded a lot of my
vinyl disks to cassette tape using a high end Nakamichi deck. Over
the years I've gotten lazy and listen to CDs. Recently wanted to hear
some music that is on one of my tapes. Was stunned by how bad it
sounds. And yes, believe it or not, I'm still using the same
components as I did over 20 years ago so they aren't variables in this
equation.
Data CD/DVD storage may well be superior -- or not. The big concern
for me is that image files that lose a few bits may be impossible to
load even if the technology to load and print them still exists. I
might be able to put up with music that sounds dull and flat due to
lost data, but image files are notoriously difficult to repair.
my two lux worth/ScottGee1
On 2/3/06, Scott Gomez <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I agree with you here, Schnozz. On another venue, I was involved in
> quite a heated discussion recently about this very issue. There is a
> significant fraction of (mostly younger) photographers who are convinced
> that this "isn't an issue". According to them, one just has to make a
> set of backups, one to CD/DVD and another to HD, store both in drawers
> in one's office, and all will be well as "digital doesn't degrade like
> film and silver prints do".
>
> I suggested that when they had 150 years' storage on either, they should
> report back on their image recovery rates :-)
>
> It's a significant issue, and one about which organizations like NARA
> and the British Museum are concerned. Between technology obsolescence,
> unpredictable failure of CD/DVD recordable media, and the potential that
> even stored, unused HDs may fail unnoticed, it's not going be an easy
> issue to solve. In one article regarding archival storage of digital
> data which I recently read, it was estimated that maintaining
> high-probability-of-recovery storage could account for many orders of
> magnitude more cost than the original production of the data.
>
> It's not just photos, either. Much of the world's information of all
> types is rapidly becoming digital-only.
>
> ---
> Scott Gomez
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of AG Schnozz
> Subject: [OM] Re: Long term survival of prints
>
> Good thinking. I fear a tremendous gap in photographic history at some
> point. Our current reliance upon an intangible medium could subject
> future generations to a a period of time where billions of photographs
> were taken but few preserved/printed for future generations.
>
> AG
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