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From: "Albert" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> As far as digital; I have worked with 1100 webservers before (For
> Boeing) and trust me when I say, archiving digital stuff is a headache
> the size of a 747.. Most of my 3 year old CD's are not readable..
You really scare me! I just dig out some CDs that burnt with my 8x old CD
writer that written in 1999, they are still reading fine. Sorry to see your
bad experience, keeping a good storage and data archival system may be
critical for some people but I don't see big problem yet. I'm still using
dBase III plus and Clipper 87. My program was written in 1993 and rewrote in
1996, they are still there and working (actually some of my late 80's
program that I don't use anymore is still keeping well).
> jpg's are not the standard anymore... jpg2000 is suppose to be, but
> it's a rough road... TIFF (version 6) which we currently use, is going
> to be replaced by TIFF (version 7).. What about proprietary RAW
> formats? One of my students can't find a battery for her old sony
> digital cameras anymore.. Issues like that are of great concern. If
> there are vacation places that I can only go to ONCE in my life, I'd
> probably trust it more to film right now..
>
I have tried JPEG2000, it looks fine but I never bother with it as I don't
see big benifit for my storage application. For web I perfer the more widely
supported old JPEG format. Don't know anything about new TIFF but most
application is still able to read the obsolete PCX format. Any new program
most likely will support the popular older format, I don't worry about that.
In case necessary I will transfer them to the new format. If you only
decided to keep RAW you better keep more backup copies of your RAW
convertor. I keep both RAW and JPEG at low compression (I don't have space
for 16bit TIFF). If the DC is so old that you can't even found the battery,
it must be very old technology, shooting with it is wasting the time better
buy a new one.
> I had digital copies only, of my penpals from Germany, England etc..
> then I got a virus and it wiped out all my jpgs. No problem, went to
> the CD's... error reading CD's. So I don't have pictures of any of my
> penpals anymore.. Asked them to send me new ones, all they had were
> newer pics of themselves, the digital ones they had somehow ended up
> getting deleted without being archived..
That is a personal problem, I heard lots of stories about people can't found
their negatives too.
C.H.Ling
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