Let's see, some years back durning the eighty's depression while I was on
the road looking for work I left my negs and prints at my parents house
which burnt to the ground. I don't know those film negatives and prints just
don't seem archival enough for me.

Ciao,
Graywolf
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----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: digital crashes


> Only solution is multiple redundancy.  Everything I can think of is
susceptible
> to damage.
>
> At 11:47 AM 2/17/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Just a quickie:
> >
> >I've just brought a fire safe for some of my more 'important'
negatives...
> >and it let me a  'trollish' thread thought:
> >
> >What happens to the digital shooter when their hard disk crashes? When
their
> >CD gets scratched?
> >
> >Why? As a professional IT dude (apologies - i'm a MUCH better
photographer),
> >I would have thought a big old DLT 70GB tape would do.. (i do a little
> >scanning once in a while) until I lost the tape drive, and several tapes
due
> >to physical errors.... Once someone can properly explain a SAFE solution
to
> >archiving, i'll pick up a d1, and maybe even use it over my 67ii :)
> >
> >Enjoy - Oliver
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