Digital BW, The Print

Now this is really stupid....First of all the consumer marketplace disagrees
and has already switched to digital.  This is reflected in sales.  As for
backup, let's not go around that bush again.  There will be many who wish
their parents had kept their negatives at all, or hadn't kept their
negatives in a shoebox and decided to toss them years ago, or wish their
parents could afford a camera.


> From: "Anthony G. Atkielski" <anthony@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:50:47 +0100
> To: jnhugo <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] the contax toast/film thingy
> 
> 
> jnhugo writes:
> 
>> I really think families should still shot their events on film. Film
>> will last much longer than digital files. Few home photographers
>> practice proper back-up of their digital files and every computer will
>> have a crash event that will threaten the hard drive.
> 
> Kodak feels the same way; they once predicted that at least 80% of all
> digital photos will be lost, because they are being stored on disk
> drives for which there are no backups.  When the disk fails, the photos
> disappear.
> 
>> I predict in 20 years from now there are going to be many many 23 and
>> 24 year olds who will be pissed off because there are no pictures of
>> thier chidhood-because dad didn't back up properly and all were lost
>> in the early part of the century due to a computer hard drive crash.
> 
> I agree.  It will all be gone.  The chances of those digital photos
> surviving are about the same as the chances of all e-mail surviving
> (that is to say, almost nonexistent).
> 
>