I agree that film, for me at any rate is still desirable when it comes to long term storage and I still use it for landscapes and closeups by preference. I have a personal 35mm slide library of more than 75000, some of these are over 40 years old and are still quite useable. I wonder just what the long term storage prospects are for the serious amateur digital photographer? I have PC's dating back to the old 286 with 640K memory, a seperate 51/4" floppy drive and a huge 10Mb (yes Mb) separate hard drive that cost me £350. I could plug in a SCSI card and use my old Nikon film scanner on this at a pinch, (I would need to write a small DOS program to run it), it would be desperately slow but would work. Try plugging your digital 8.0Gb memory card or your 1.0Tb hard drive into this. What I'm trying to get at is that as technology moves on do we keep all our old computers just so we can retrieve our photo's in 40 years time, what will the computers of 2050 look like, maybe you'll wear it on your wrist and use it's built in camera with no lens to store your 1.0Tb image file onto it's built in 10Pb solid state storage system! But where do you plug in your old CD, DVD or hard drives where all your carefully backed up photo's were stored all those years ago, and wait a minute, how do you run that old Windows XP/Vista software ?
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