Photographers, Their Data Backups and NASA

[kuzano]

Occasionally we get off on a rolling, rambling discussion about image backups, storage of negatives, preservation of prints and media, etc.

This pretty much lays the groundwork for another one of those posts, ie discussions:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090716/ap_on_sc/us_sci_moon_video

The essential question that follows... Who Do YOU KNOW in Hollywood?

 

[bmattock]

The essential question that follows... Who Do YOU KNOW in Hollywood?

Funny you should mention Hollywood. Back in the day when films were still subject to decomposition into an explosive compound...

http://www.filmpreservation.org/preservation/nitrate.html

http://www.filmpreservation.org/

Now they try to find and restore films from that era, although some are gone forever.

So apparently, entropy affects everything.

Let us leave out the digital versus film as a storage medium please. I'm tired of whacking blockheads upside their punkin heads.

 

[dcsang]

You'd think that NASA figured that these were like so many "security" video tapes that get re-used after a certain period of time and none of the footage was "that important".

Man, I wonder who the pinhead was that erased it initially - surely videotape could not have been THAT expensive back in '69/70 could it?

For all we know, it's being looked at by "TOP MEN !" and they actually didn't erase it but decided that it wasn't going to exist at all because, well, the moon landing never happened right?

Cheers,
Dave

 

[manfromh]

I thought they were erased by accident? Atleast thats the impression I got from an article in a local paper.