erl Posted August 13, 2012 Share #21 Posted August 13, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) I never threw away film negs. If a roll of film had one good image, that justified filing the film. Same cost and effort for the whole film as one image. Bonus: Years later, I occasionally discover some of the 'rubbish' on a film has become important with the passage of time. Currently I have somewhere in the order of 20000+ films archived. It costs me not very much space, that I would not use otherwise. I use the same basic philosophy for my digital files, carefully backing up both DNG and processed files to an external HD. I start each year with a new ext. HD, just to assist searching. All files are numbered with the date reversed (easier searching) and a simple word descriptor and a simple '1 to whatever' for each day. Filing on the HD and main computer is into named sub folders, suggestive of what it contains. I still suspect that my film archive just might survive better than my digital archive, but maybe I won't be around to know. Oh! I forgot. I'm not going anywhere until someone convinces me it's worthwhile. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jean-Michel Posted August 13, 2012 Share #22 Posted August 13, 2012 Hi again, Well, with any luck we all will have migrated to new media or technology before the our current equipment fails. In the early years, hard drives had a label indicating the MTBF (mean time between failures) affixed to them. Since the mid-80's when I first started using 'personal' computers I had four drives fail, luckily none with tragic consequences as I had backups of most files on any variety of 5.25" floppies, 3.5" floppies, Syquest drives, CD's, and external hard drives. I have client files on Easy 135 cartridges that cannot be read as my Syquest drive is toast and working drives are probably non-existent, not to mention that my newish MacPro does not support SCSI peripherals, although adapters do exist. I also have files on 5.25 floppies - and a still functioning 486 machine running DOS 3.1, but that is museum equipment. And what about reel to reel tapes, cassettes, 8 track, beta or vhs tapes... Even if in good condition how available is the equipment to play them. So my mantra is really: if you want to keep it, print it. Jean-Michel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
erl Posted August 13, 2012 Share #23 Posted August 13, 2012 Beware the silverfish and 'foxing' though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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