From: heller@deepsoft.com
At Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:27:09 -0500 Michael Finfer wrote:
>
> 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.
Right. It is more an issue with video tape.
>
> 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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