Digital BW, The Print

Peter: I have to conceed you are right here. If you're talking about
filing things away for some future generation, hard copy (prints or
negs) is the only way. 

I tend to simply think that someday when I'm gone, my children and
grand children probably will have very little interest in the photos I
made other than having a print or two. I'm reasonably confident the
rest of the world won't care. 

Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Nelson"
<pnweb@s...> wrote:
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Michaels" 
> <bob@b...> wrote:
> >  Except I swear by external hard drives. When they're nearing the
end of their technical life cycle, you just copy the ENTIRE thing at
one time over to whatever media is being used in the future. 
> 
> Who do you mean by "you"?
> 
> Almost everyone is thi discussion is overlooking the first poster's 
> PREMISE:
> 
> He wants something to leave behind when he's gone so it will 
> be "easy" for people in the future to see his images.
> 
> I'm saying that any solution requires that someone with technical 
> skill have to actively convert his files on a regular basis to some 
> new format (AND guess right about what the new format should be!) 
> fails the "easy" test.