25th June 2009, 10:57 PM
In reply to 1man I meant of course "the only appropriate medium for long-term archival storage of COLOUR site photos".
In reply to Kevin... I think that this is probably inevitable, but we do need to ensure migratability between hardware of the image files. So far no-one has bitten the bullet - TIFFS are the closest thing to the digital equivalent of a negative, and it is a shame that the various RAW formats are not compatible with eachother. Even the newspapers have notoriously short-term mindsets... they are not thinking 100 or 200 years as I am.
Has anyone arrived at a genuinely long-term solution? I would be very interested to hear about it.
In reply to Kevin... I think that this is probably inevitable, but we do need to ensure migratability between hardware of the image files. So far no-one has bitten the bullet - TIFFS are the closest thing to the digital equivalent of a negative, and it is a shame that the various RAW formats are not compatible with eachother. Even the newspapers have notoriously short-term mindsets... they are not thinking 100 or 200 years as I am.
Has anyone arrived at a genuinely long-term solution? I would be very interested to hear about it.