I understand your points, and am sad for your friend, but I had to challenge
this as a negative to digital.
This was just poor workmanship on your friends part. I don't mean to be
rude, but you don't clean off the card, or have just one copy. I copy them
to my primary machine. It has automatic backup software that copies them to
our house server. I burn two copies, one of which I keep in the house and
one of which goes offsite.
This is no different then if he shot film, but didn't make prints and then
accidently destroyed the negatives.
You plan on the consequences of a virus -- nothing important should ever be
lost.
Tom
> From: Olympus [mailto:olympus@xxxxxxxxxxx]
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But there is a (SAD) story I'd like to share with you all...
> A friend of mine, he went to China, and adopted a daughter. Blind
adoption,
> the social services picked a child, and that was it. Like a 1 year old
> girl. The couple flew to china to pick up the girl. He bought a digital
> camera JUST for this moment. He several 128Meg compact flash cards, so he
> wouldn't "run out of film" or run out of memory as is more accurate.. He
> took a bunch of pictures, and loaded them onto the computer to view when
he
> got home.
>
> He was prepared to burn a CD the next day.. He had cleared the compact
> flash already. As he was about to burn a CD, he got a virus in which all
> his jpg's were all deleted. He had lost ALL his pictures. He cried for
> several days, and returned the digital camera. With film, EVEN with
crappy
> development, no virus will destroy my negatives.. Some people say burn it
> onto a CD and you'll be fine. I have never lost my negatives (generally
in
> a photo box, like everybody else) and short of a fire or a flood, they are
> always safe. I've had CD's gone bad on me from scratches etc.. I will
not
> trust that the only copy I have of something that I highly value, be on
> digital camera.
>
> Albert
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