On Apr 27, 2006, at 6:14 AM, Jostein wrote:
... However, from a consumer perspective I think it sucks big time
that you have to
migrate your archive every five years to maintain your memories.
With film,
memories could pass down through generations without much
maintenance. I can't
imagine anyone wanting to propagate my archive every five years
when I'm no
longer around. ...
I can re-copy my digital photo archives, losslessy, all 165,000 image
files of it, in about an hour and a half easily, with no more effort
than setting up the new media and telling the computer to copy it.
My film negatives, carefully archival processed stored in archival
sleeves, are deteriorating after 25-30 years. Not to unusable, but it
would be difficult to make prints of the quality that could be made
from them when they were fresh. Film is fragile and unique, not
easily reproducible. I'll take the tradeoffs of digital media any time.
And after I'm gone, well, I figure my interest in the work will
likely diminish. It will be someone else's affair as to whether it is
worth keeping around.
Godfrey
