. A magnetic stripe or a CD (unless thoroughly > annotated) yields no such possibility. A scratch on a negative can be retouched > while a scratch on a CD may render its information quite useless. > andy Spreading heresy again? Digital information is perfect, it can never be lost. Formats never change ... CDs never go phutttt ... Actually the main lesson is that who gives a flying phutt anyway. Why worry about images: they are taken and then they are gone. Albums are just baggage: landfil after you die. With pixels ... they never were ... Q