[mou] Digiscoping discussion

[Rob Daves]

I'm not an IT guy -- public opinion research is my game -- but I put Gail's question a couple of years ago to some of the IT gurus at the large, locally well-known media company I used to work for.  Their consensus (you could see the wheels turning as they hemmed and hawed), was that:

1.  We don't know what the long term future looks like, so any digital medium would be dicey if you really, really wanted to preserve your images for a long time.
2.  Use multiple digital media for backups.  (The RAID systems are good, as one writer indicated, but aren't bullet proof.)  
3.  Analogue is the only failsafe way -- that means printing your images on acid-free paper with quality inks.

Me?  Anything I want to keep, I burn onto a CD and print hard-copy images stored in acid-free plastic sleeves in addition to going the RAID route.  But I'm not a pro at this -- I'm just passing along what some folks in the printing business told me.

Hope it helps.
 

Rob Daves
South Minneapolis

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From: Bernard P. Friel <wampy at att.net>
To: Gail Wieberdink <wieber64 at comcast.net>; MOU <mou-net at moumn.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:40:07 PM
Subject: Re: [mou] Digiscoping discussion

Re: [mou] Digiscoping discussion     All of the above, CDs, DVDs, external hard drives, and external automatic backup hard drives..... and prayer. 
     I just had 1.25 terabytes of external hard drive crash. At considerable expense I was able to recover 750 GB which was all original digital images, but the cost of recovery of the 500GB was prohibitive. Thankfully all of those were from scans of transparencies so the images are not lost and I did have most of them on CDs or DVDs. However some of those scans were not readable on my IMAC G5 or MAC BOOK PRO, but were readable on IMAC G4 and an  earlier  MAC laptop. It seems that with every technological gain there is a technological loss, and a further example is that my first scanner is not compatible with my G5 so I must scan to my G4 and to my G5 through a network connection
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Bernard P. Friel
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From: Gail Wieberdink <wieber64 at comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:42:53 -0600
To: MOU <mou-net at moumn.org>
Subject: Re: [mou] Digiscoping discussion

I really want to thank everyone for all the really good information that has been shared on this topic!  I spent a lot of time thinking about going to a digital SLR camera but in the end decided against it.  The posts here have made me feel even more strongly that for myself, that was the right decision.  I have a 5.1 megapixel point and shoot camera with a 12X zoom.  I have an additional 1.7 telephoto lens attachment and a close-up lens.  For the most part, I've been pretty satisfied with what I have.  I have a few framed 8 x 10's hanging on the walls, but generally, I print very few photos but instead enjoy looking at them on the computer.   My camera equipment is pretty light so it is not a burden to take along on bird hikes.
 
With so many photographers going digital these days, what do you find is the best way/place to store the images?  I've  used both CDs and DVDs and have thought about getting a portable hard drive.  But all these things seem to have a life span and perhaps soon CDs and DVDs will be obsolete.  So, what do all you photographers do with your digital images to preserve/protect them?
 
Gail 
 
Gail Wieberdink
wieber64 at comcast.net
 
 

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