so much good advice (some of it competing, even conflicting; but, hey, this is the place where we debate everything else ... "does the v2 35 cron really render less beautiful bokeh than the ...."). I appreciate ALL the insights and hope to see more.
my inclination right now (it changes faster than the weather) is to keep the Time Capsule and plan for an upgrade in a year when I see how my needs develop and my patience thins.
If all my hardware died right now, with no possibility of recovery, I do have backups in the form of negatives (they survived a flood already), prints (ditto) and 12,000+ images backed up to flickr. (he writes while knocking wood.)
Before we had all this technology, what, if anything, did most of us do for disaster recovery on negatives and prints? Obviously, film (modern, post-nitrate film) and prints had some special archival qualities that made them durable in ways that digital media might not be. On the other hand, if the building that had all your negatives and prints caught fire, where would you be???
In 1978 the US National Archives AND George Eastman House BOTH had fires in the vaults that housed their archives of nitrate based films (movies). The National Archives lost 12.6 million feet of newsreel footage. My wife worked for a film library (Sherman Grinberg Film Libraries) where the nitrate vault's holding could be seen disintegrating almost before one's naked eyes. The librarians there would cut out rotted sections straight from the reels (cross sections really) as they were cancer (actually, they were cancer). Grinberg had Movietone News, Paramount News, Pathe, etc. newreels, PLUS gillions of feet of 3/4inch video cassettes from ABC News.
