Looks like Film may win over today's Digital Photography in the long run.

[Bill Clark]

The gent who became my mentor had a fire in his studio, many years ago, way before I met him. Most all of his negatives were destroyed. Fortunately, nobody took legal action against him. Nothng is forever.

 

[RattyMouse]

The gent who became my mentor had a fire in his studio, many years ago, way before I met him. Most all of his negatives were destroyed. Fortunately, nobody took legal action against him. Nothng is forever.

I will *easily* take the risk of fire over digital rot any day of the week.

I know exactly zero people who have had their house burned down. I know many people who have lost digital files.

 

[willie_901]

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Relying entirely on digital, to me, has always been a gamble as the technology is still upgrading exponentially and is prone to failure. ...

The risks you describe can be minimized without a great deal of effort or money. Corporations around the world use these methods to insure their businesses do not go poof. Individuals can implement similar storage strategies.

For instance Amazon Web Services replicates their entire Cloud storage system in at least six locations around the globe. Many corporation (including banks) and global government agencies use Amazon Web Services to insure the viability of their data. These people do not people do not gamble with their companies'/institutions' future.

 

[Lauffray]

Ha! In 50 years time you might just want to look at them and re-live the excitement of youth etc, etc.

OK, I'm an old git but your past is just as important as your future. And it's nice to look back on these things...

Regards, David

That's exactly what I meant, all I care about is that I still have the choice to work with film, whether analog or digital dominates the market and what cameras will look like by then is not a big concern

 

[back alley]

i have nailed all my old hard drives onto cave walls!

 

[willie_901]

i have nailed all my old hard drives onto cave walls!

You trust nails? 😕

 

[back alley]

You trust nails? 😕

galvanized deck nails only...

 

[David Hughes]

Hi,

What baffles me is the number of people who don't back-up files of one sort or another.

I can remember seeing my first hard disc crash in November 1965, only it was called a rotating magnetic data store or something but the point is that the problem is/should be well known.

Regards, David

 

[Bill Clark]

Agree David. I back up at least twice plus the original for a total of three.

Didn't back up negatives. Couldn't ever get the film in reverse! Ha!

Can't you write some comment I can respond to to get to the 1000 mile msrker? Thanks.

 

[shadowfox]

We have photographs from 100 years ago.

When we have a 100-years old digital image, and we can't find any 200-years old film negative (or positive), then we can declare which medium is superior...

until then.. let's use both.

 

[RattyMouse]

Hi,

What baffles me is the number of people who don't back-up files of one sort or another.

I can remember seeing my first hard disc crash in November 1965, only it was called a rotating magnetic data store or something but the point is that the problem is/should be well known.

Regards, David

Back up does not protect you from digital rot. In fact, the opposite occurs, you back up the rotted file!

I lost the earliest photos of my son as they rotted on the hard drive unknown to me. One day while looking through family photos I went to these images and I found that they would no longer open. No matter what, the files seemed totally corrupted. I went to my back up disks, found the images, and discovered that they too were corrupted. The back up software detected the "change" to these files and copied them over the good files.

This proved to me that one can never, ever rely upon digital for archival reasons.