You can usually find full size CR-R's for a lower per unit price than floppies
and from my experience Floppies go south much more often than any other storage
media that I've worked with. The ANSI standard for longevity of a floppy is
6 mos. of service, if I remember correctly, (that's 6 months
William Robb wrote:
I have come to think of any digitally stored information as
being transient, at best.
How about we all start buying slide recorders as backup devices for our
digital camera files? :)
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ (out of date)
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On 28 Jul 2002 at 18:32, David A. Mann wrote:
How about we all start buying slide recorders as backup devices for our
digital camera files? :)
I have one for sale (Polaroid HR-6000), don't trust these digital storage
devices :-)
Cheers,
Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
Tel
I think I'm with Bob on this. Nowadays, for colour print work, which
is mainly family stuff and some community organisation record shots, I
will have the films developed and scanned to CD at my local Frontier
lab. These are quite good enough for small prints and use in local
newspapers and
John Coyle wrote:
Don't laugh, one major training organisation I worked with
lost three months class records because no-one had checked that the tape
backups were Ok.
Telecom NZ once installed a software upgrade in one of their exchanges.
Everything went fine for several months, until
Cameron,
At only 10-20K to back-up every day, why use anything but a floppy?
The bigger issue is whether to put a week or month on each back-up floppy,
and where to put the floppies so they aren't stolen along with the computer!
Regards, Bob S.
Cameron Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the digital future, Bob Keefer opined:
I really wonder whether the average home photographer really wants to
put that much energy into making pictures of the kids' birthday party
Hi Bob,
I think you've nailed it. As much as many of us PDMLers enjoy working in
the digital darkroom, I
In a message dated 7/25/2002 8:09:24 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you're absolutely right that most folks
don't want to go to all that trouble if the goal is a couple dozen 4x6
prints of vacations, birthday parties, and so forth. Hell, ~I~ won't
usually go
ERNR wrote:
I agree if digital can't deliver ... but right now it certainly
can't?
The important part of my quote you left off was at a competitive price, by
which I mean competitive with disposable cameras and low-end
point-and-shoot. It ain't there yet, and I don't see it getting there for
In a message dated 7/25/2002 9:50:18 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ERNR wrote:
I agree if digital can't deliver ... but right now it certainly
can't?
The important part of my quote you left off was at a competitive price,
by
which I mean competitive with
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From: Len Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: Digital doubts
Bob,
I don't work the same way with digital. I have two printers.
One is an HP Photosmart 100 that I use for making an index print
and then I use
In a message dated 7/25/2002 10:19:24 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Actually I have Kodak's headstone in my back garden at the moment - really.
Any offers on the inscription? Also any offers to come take it away
seriously considered
Kind regards
Peter
ERNR wrote:
from what I've seen -- you put it in the machine, download the data,
push the friendly
little buttons to place your order, remove your card and take it with
you.
Certainly that's how it works at the semi-pro lab where I actually do
get
prints made.
I wish to god we had a service
Or, how about this one:
eastman kodak's defunct
who used to ride a watersmooth-silver (halide) stallion
so we may photograph onetwothreefourfive pidgeonsjustlikethat
jesus
they made some fine emulsions
and what i want to know is
how do you like your dominant market share
mr fuji?
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Len
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From: Don Williams Finland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 7:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Digital doubts
How do you keep the Epson jets clean? I found that I used so much ink
cleaning the bloody thing that it became
competetively, with fewer
operators needed than mini-labs.
I think Kodak has a ways to go before their demise.
Len
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Digital Doubts
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here lies Kodak...and why not?
See, you can push our film to 3200.
Wouldn't it make more sense to rate it at 3200?
But..ours goes to 3200!
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http://www.infotainment.org
The destructive character is cheerful. - Walter Benjamin
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In a message dated 7/25/2002 1:00:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
See, you can push our film to 3200.
Wouldn't it make more sense to rate it at 3200?
But..ours goes to 3200!
If I told them once I told them a thousand times, it should read, Kodak
Processing first,
One of the big selling points of digital is that it's supposed to be very cheap, but
it doesn't always seem that way. I recently did a studio shoot with a friend of mine.
He was using a Fuji S1 Pro, and I was using the MZ-S. Oddly enough, the Fuji Pro
has no PC outlet, so he had to use its
is swinging more towards digital.
Len
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From: Pat White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: Digital doubts
One of the big selling points of digital is that it's supposed
to be very cheap, but it doesn't
How do you keep the Epson jets clean? I found that I used so much ink
cleaning the bloody thing that it became a financial burden. It sits here
doing nothing now.
D
which model? i find that i use my 1270 about once a week to print something
and that is enough. i never need to clean the jets
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