montresor
TPF Noob!
This is one of the more depressing threads I've read. Digital file storage seems so potentially corruptible. Yes, negatives can also get destroyed, but still, there's something terrifying about how a digital file can be gone in a nanosecond if something isn't exactly right. My day job is in radio, and we were completely knocked off line the other day by a ten-second power outage. We had our tech guy running around trying to bring all the broadcast and production studios back on line. We lost revenue from commercials that didn't happen (outage at a daypart change -- oops!), and everything that was "in medias res" in production was lost. In the old days, when you worked with analog boards and edited tape with a razor blade, a ten-second power outage was a minor interruption. Now it's a money-losing disaster. So I for one have never been convinced of the superiority of new technology. There's something comforting about a Zeiss Contarex that works without batteries or processors. Maybe I'll just go back to glass plates. I always wanted to try 8x10 anyway.