Digital BW, The Print

I wasn't religious about storage, but I was respectful of my film. All
 my negs from the late Sixties onward went into Savage or Agfa (very
nice) glassine sleeves. As a result they're in super condition
today...the few that went into polyethylene pages are iffy at best.
The old glassines are yellowing now so I transfer film to polyester
side-loading foldloc sleeves when it occurs to me. I bought a bunch of
vintage Hasselblad glassines recently, threw them out...coarse, scary.

For digital backup my files are all copied to a 750G Maxtor that's
entirely unplugged when I'm not backing. I'm more confident in two HDs
than I am in CD/DVDs. Backups don't have to do with "archival" IMO,
they have to do with avoidance of sudden loss. As well, the print
isn't the final object anymore IMO, it's the file. 


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Savoia
<mark@...> wrote:
>
> My only question is were we all this religious with our negs? How many  
> of us did the "archival thing" years ago? Is this overkill? Just  
> curious - be honest.
> Mark
> 
> On Dec 18, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Kip Babington wrote:
> 
> > I'm considering doing that once I run out of my current supply of gold
> > CDs.  But now I can burn 2 disks, and put one in another house for  
> > added
> > security.  That would be a lot less convenient than managing a pair of
> > large disks, not to mention whatever risk there is in moving one of
> > those disks from place to place.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kip
> >
> > brouwerkent wrote:
> >>
> >> Richard
> >>
> >> I have made the decision that hard drives have become so inexpensive
> >> that for backup...just
> >> buy a drive...and turn it off and set it aside. Cheap , faster...and
> >> unless I am mistaken...just
> >> as archival. I bought a 500 gig recently in California for 75
> >> bucks...cheap enough to set on
> >> the shelf as backup solution.
> >>
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