Hello all,
I just checked my oldest E-1 CDs and they are legible. It seems amazing -
I've had that camera about 2 years now, and hardly ever look back over those
old images. In those days I didn't even know how to load it with film. How
times change. I write a CD for every 256MB CF card-ful, and am about to
start # 31.
So I am now on track to order the Delkin gold. My WV friend is OK to relay
a parcel.
On another tack, we had a discussion about safeguarding Archival CDs,
starting with flooding and typhoons. We never concluded how to deal with fire.
I suggest making boxes of what we call gib-board. 16mm thick gib-board has
a fire stop rating of 2 hours. A box within a box of this stuff, separated
with
fibreglass batt material should be good for 5 hours of fire. USA residents call
gib-board drywall
A drywall panel is made of a paper liner wrapped around an inner core made
primarily from gypsum plaster, the semi-hydrous form of calcium sulphate
(CaSO4.½ H2O ) Much of the fire protection comes from the cooling
resulting from the forced evaporation of that 1/2 H^2 0 molecule.
The key thing ( check Wikipedia) is to NOT penetrate the gib-board with
holes or metal.
HTH
Brian
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