----- Original Message ----- From: "Knut Kampe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:27 AM Subject: Re: Digital vs.FILM: will digital cameras lose the war?
> At 09:44 29.08.02 -0500, you wrote: > >alled base of jpg/tiff et al is huge. We'll be able to > >read that for at least as long as your slides last! > > > >As to the physical format, who cares? Any collection of pictures can be > >moved around a network as devices move to higher densities > > I don't dispute that jpg/tiff might be readable in 100 years. But the media > on which these images are stored today, might not be readable in 20 years. > Magnetically stored data will definitely not last > 20 years. Most of the > floppys I used 10 years ago are no longer readable today. Hard disks are > similar. I'm not sure about discs, but I believe lifetime is in the range > of ~50 years for them. > I keep my images on a RAID system, so individual disk life is a non issue. Any critical data is handled this way. Think about all the companies/institutions/etc. that need to keep data for long peroids of time. There are systems to do this, and the data is 100% preserved. > You will need to constantly "mantain" your picture library, copy it to new > media etc. to keep your images. This is already problematic for some > formats: jpg for example loose some quality every time they are copied as > far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong on this). > Wrong. You get a perfect digital copy each time. -R
