[OM] Re: Film vs. Analog - interesting read

[Chuck Norcutt]

I'm hoping that we will eventually reach a technology the will offer 
very low cost and essentially permanent storage analagous to our flash 
cards of today.  We will treat them like film cartridges and even though 
they may be rewritable they will be so cheap and offer such long lived 
storage that we will simply maintain the original cartridge as our back 
up after copying to another form of storage for further processing.

I just did a little calculation and realized that we're just about there 
with CF cards if you only shoot JPEGS.  A typical 5D (12.8MP) full res 
JPEG image  (according to dpreview's tests) is 3.4MB.  A 2GB CF card 
will hold 588 of these or the equivalent of about 16 36 exposure rolls 
of film.  The cheapest film these days is rougly $3.00/roll without 
processing.  16 rolls at $3.00 each is $48 or $1 *more* than SanDisk's 
slowest 2GB card from B&H (with rebate).  And that's without any processing.

So how's that for a bit of number crunching.  If you shoot big, 5D size 
JPEG's it's actually cheaper *today* to buy a new 2GB CF card and save 
the old one as your image archive than it is to buy film let alone 
process the film.

The next few years may be a revolution in how we view arching.  I hope 
the future arrives faster.

Chuck Norcutt

Philippe Le Zuikomane wrote:

> I can't wait for a solution offering long-life photochemical
> archiving of high-resolution digital pictures. - Phil
> 
> On 18:15, Ali Shah wrote:
> 
> 
>> http://www.ajaxnetphoto.blogspot.com/


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