April 26, 2004

Digital Photo Drawbacks

Sunday Star Times writes about how digital photography has major archival drawbacks. First of all, people tend to not print out their photos. Consequently if consumers lose their data from a hard-drive crash, they lose out on all their memories. Moreover most printouts from color inkjets tend not to stand the test of time and CD-Rs don't seem to last either. Another drawback is the low resolution and poor quality of most digital photographs compared to 35mm film. Fifty years from now, all the pictures we take now are liable to be lost. Personally I'm worried most of losing all my data. I've been using CD-Rs to backup, but now with the recent tests that show CD-Rs don't last very long. I need to buy one of those backup hard-drives ASAP. Read [Via Engadget]