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Monday, January 24, 2005


You still need print photos
I echo what Glenn Reynolds wrote a few days ago: paper is actually an advanced technology that lasts a long time, which is untrue for electronic media.

There is almost nothing so perishable as electronically stored images. Don't tell me about "backing up." The only proper way to back up digital images is by printing them onto photo paper.

I say this because when my hard drive melted last month, I lost hundreds of digital images forever. I did save a large number, but far fewer than I lost. It's true that most of the lost images were redundant of others and other images were really just delete material anyway. Even so, there were many dozens, at least, I wish I still had.

So read Glenn's post and take my advice: print the photos you want to keep.

by Donald Sensing, 1/24/2005 04:56:06 PM. Permalink |  






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