On Thu, October 20, 2011 21:19, Chris Telesca/Telesca Photography wrote: > I still think digital photography sucks from the standpoint of all the > things I love about analog (like still being able to make prints or scans > from film older than me) compared with all the hardware and software > needed to store and access the digital files. Strange; I store my digital photos in smaller and much cheaper facilities than what I need to store my analog photo collection. And my digital files are being much better curated -- my analog files (in the "filing cabinet" sense) are not stored in temperature and humidity controlled storage, so they're deteriorating constantly. I've invested quite a lot in archival storage materials, and in storage cabinets and such, still; certainly more than the cost of a couple of hard drives for my digital backups. But if my house burns, or floods, my digital photos will survive. My analog photos will be lost -- except the ones that I have scans of. And I can certainly make prints from my negatives better and more quickly today than I ever could in a darkroom. > One day soon we won't even > be allowed to store our own digital photos because everything will be > stored on the "cloud" which someone else ultimately controls access to! Nonsense; it's an option, not something anybody is being forced to do. And we'll need massive improvements in bandwidth to the home before we give it any serious consideration. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
