From: finfer@optonline.net   
      
   On 12/4/2014 9:24 AM, conklin wrote:   
      
   > Unless you print out your pictures from digital media, every few years will   
   > make your storage medium obsolete.   
      
   Has not happened yet, and there is always a transition period when you   
   can transfer images from one medium to another.  The old days of floppy   
   disc drives are gone, but those discs could not even hold one of the   
   images that I take today.  Those things are not relevant to this discussion.   
      
   I have all of my images in several places, my hard drive, at least two   
   external hard drives, and good quality CD's or DVD's.  One of those   
   external hard drives is kept at work in case my house burns down.  I   
   just bought a 2 TB drive that will last me for some time.  So far, the   
   industry has made all of its optical drives backwards compatible with   
   the older formats, which is really just a software issue, and I see no   
   sign that that is going to change.  I am not worried.   
      
   Michael Finfer   
   Bridgewater, NJ   
      
   > Kodachrome slides are good for 60-100   
   > years.  Some my father took in 1946 are still perfect.  His 8 mm film of   
   > steam engines at Catskill, NY, on passenger trains are still as good as the   
   > day they were taken.  But my cell phone videos of Engine 12 on the Tweetsie   
   > will not outlast the cell phone.  As for the VHS mini tapes I had for   
   > several years, they are already showing problems.  But no sense in   
   > complaining.  All we have now is digital.   
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