I heard tell of a pro who just uses a fresh external hard drive each
month - they're in the cupboard labelled 'Jan, Feb, March...' -
reckons it's the cheapest, most reliable and easiest way to work and
archive mass files.
Another local pro hung a range of image loaded CD's on the clothes line
in all weathers and checked them every so often - Kodak Gold lasted
longest, still good at 6 months. TDK came in third (can't remember
second place)
AndrewF
On 12/01/2005, at 12:24 PM, Skip Williams wrote:
>
> I bought an external, firewire LaCie 240 GB drive that I'm putting all
> my photos and digital music on. It's outside the computer and easily
> transportable. In fact, I'll likely get another one next year to use
> as an offsite backup of the first. They're only $300! I trust a hard
> disk more than CD-R's or especially DVD's, which are a real question
> mark right now for long-term storage.
>
> If I was using CD-R's, I'd buy the gold archival disks, which are
> about $1.35/CD.
>
> Skip
>
>
> ----- Original Message ---------------
>
> Subject: [OM] Archiving Digital Images - was Re: Oh yeah, now I
> remember
> From: "Jeff Keller" <jrk_om@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:50:53 -0800
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>
>> The local imaging companies use 30MB files to store 35mm drum
>> scans (and are using DVDs to transfer scans). A roll of film creates
>> a need for over 1GB versus 2 plastic sheets holding 20 slides each.
>> The Raw file from an E-1 takes about 10MB which doesn't have
>> as much resolution as film. Long term it would seem necessary to
>> budget about 20-40MB per image.
>>
>> Having spent most of the summer fighting an erratic disk failure each
>> time I tried to put a 250GB hard drive in my computer. I'm not
>> too keen to store images on two different hard drives and then
>> transfer
>> all of that to the next generation (EIDE -> SATA or whatever) when
>> the computer needs to be replaced..
>>
>> Has anyone found a good way to archive digital images? It seems
>> that the only reasonable choices are DVD or hard drives. I suppose
>> file compression could reduce the needs(?) but I don't see anything
>> comparable to a file cabinet full of plastic sheets ... ???
>> If film scanners become obsolete maybe the file cabinet will become
>> a major headache ... ???
>> TIA
>> -jeff
>> (whose digital bit bucket seems to have a leak)
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "AG Schnozz" <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [OM] Oh yeah, now I remember
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Should I invest in a nice used 4000dpi (or greater) scanner
>>> (with Digital ICE) and continue to shoot Velvia for a while? As
>>> much as I want to go digital the results from film still are
>>> worthy of my attention. I know my scanner is leaving tons of
>>> details still on the slides. (especially in dynamic range).
>>>
>>>
>>> AG
>>>
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