Rob Studdert wrote: > Both film and digital source images are vulnerable to loss or damage. You > wouldn't store your films in a spot where you knew it leaked during rain?
LOL! NO! > Likewise I check my digital image archive CDs straight after > writing and store > them in a dark dry vessel with a 3 hour fire rating (along with my films). Rob, I come with emotional baggage of two decades of slides and negatives - things I understand and trust. If I make a mistake scanning or the media corrupts, I still have the slides etc. For anyone brought up with computers and then buys a digital camera, I'm sure that persons attitude towards digital image retention is quite different. I hear so many people complain of computer failures and corrupt discs and even upgrading and sometime later finding their new computer doesn't support retrieval of older software - but is that the reality of computers in 2003? Every upgrade I have made has made the system more stable and reliable. I think digital is a very useful medium and a K-mount DSLR will certainly join my camera kit at some stage. Knowing the sort of CD manufacturer you trust to store pictures on and how many you store per disc, is the sort of information I am after. It's positive digital comments I'm after! Malcolm
