wheelej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> In a recent Sydney newspaper an article on digital cameras pointed out
> that the days of archived family photographs may well be numbered.
> With galloping technology it could be too difficult for the average
> consumer to keep up with changing storage methodologies and unless
> hard copy is made and kept (and kept in an appropriate environment)
> those much loved family images may fritter away. We've had numerous
> threads on the list regarding other aspects of the digital
> photographic revolution but I can't remember if this one was
> discussed. Any comments?
Over and over again. Yes, you must keep up with the times and copy your
archives religiously [<- I am not using that word lightly] every time a new
[OPEN] standard pops up or a new media takes dominance of the market. Right
now it's JPEG, HTML laid onto an ISO-9660 filesystem with Joilet extensions on
a CD-R. You can take that disk, walk up to every general-purpose computer
made within the past eight years [although older machines will work with
updated software], and be looking at your photos within minutes. I suspect
that a clear winner in the DVD-R standards race will appear in a few years.
At that point, it will become prudent to copy one's CD-Rs onto DVD-Rs.
Now, let's talk about family images frittering away. How many family photos
from the sixties and seventies that are in color and not on Kodachrome still
hold true to their original color, even iny print form? How many family
albums are held in archival albums with acid-free mounts?
Unless we start shipping all of our undeveloped film overseas to take
advantage of cheap labor, nobody's going to want to pay what it's going to
cost to get results at least as good as digital.
What's interesting to me is how the in-store lab machines [first 2hr then 1hr]
have managed to nearly completely kill off Polaroid in the consumer
marketplace.
andy
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