Re: Digital storage

"Stan Beck" <stan101@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Storage format will always be an issue. We started with the 8",
single-sided floppy disk. Look where we are today. The trick is to
decide which new format will be around the longest. Consider video - it
started with a contest between Beta and VHS. It's hard to find Beta
equipment these days.


Storage format yes, the 1's and 0's on a 5¼" floppy could be transferred to
a 3½" and then to a zip drive and later to a DVD and then DVX as the
technology developed. But what of the image format itself? E.g. today it's
jpeg/RAW (NEF in my case), but finding a reader for the jpeg/RAW files of
today might be problematic in 20 years time. Is conversion really lossless
if I convert the jpegs to jp2 and in the future then convert the jp2's to
jpx to keep up with the image format of the day? Maybe I'll get run over by
a bus tomorrow and it won't matter, but I like to think that in 30 years
time I'll be able to look at photos that I take today as easily as I look at
photo's today that I took 30 years ago.

Steve


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