Storing photos

"Norman & Nancy Perry" wrote in message

I am considering purchasing a DVD writer so that I can archive my photos.

I

use a film scanner to scan my 35mm slides at 4000 dpi which results in a file size of about 50MB after cropping and correcting in PhotoShop. I

like

to save my photos as TIF files so as not to loose any quality. Does

anyone

have any suggestion as to which DVD to purchase? How do most of you save

/

archive your photos? I am open to all suggestions. Thanks, Norm

CDs and DVDs are probably the worth way to safe thing for long term archival.
They have a limited life span to begin with and then they are extremely fragile, DVDs particularly.
I had to throw away several CDs just a few days ago after my machine couldn’t read them. After closer inspection I discovered holes in them after turning them towards a light source. They were only about a year old and from a good company.
Hard drives are cheaper every day, until solid state memory, like flash cards, offers larger storage options, HDs are your safest archival solution.

Stephan

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"Norman & Nancy Perry" wrote in message

CDs and DVDs are probably the worth way to safe thing for long term archival.
They have a limited life span to begin with and then they are extremely fragile, DVDs particularly.
I had to throw away several CDs just a few days ago after my machine couldn’t read them. After closer inspection I discovered holes in them

after

turning them towards a light source. They were only about a year old and from a good company.
Hard drives are cheaper every day, until solid state memory, like flash cards, offers larger storage options, HDs are your safest archival

solution.

Stephan

Can’t say I’ve experienced anything like the problems you have had with CD/DVDs Stephen, however, every 6 months or so I tend to back up my important CD/DVD data to a new disc (and keep the old copy as well).

Dave.

DVD storage at the top of the range of quality is much prefered to CD storage. One exception is when you use a re-writable CD as a write only disc. This has long life, up to 10 times the life of a garden variety CDR.

Douglas

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"Norman & Nancy Perry" wrote in message

CDs and DVDs are probably the worth way to safe thing for long term archival.
They have a limited life span to begin with and then they are extremely fragile, DVDs particularly.
I had to throw away several CDs just a few days ago after my machine couldn’t read them. After closer inspection I discovered holes in them

after

turning them towards a light source. They were only about a year old and from a good company.
Hard drives are cheaper every day, until solid state memory, like flash cards, offers larger storage options, HDs are your safest archival

solution.

Stephan

Can’t say I’ve experienced anything like the problems you have had with CD/DVDs Stephen, however, every 6 months or so I tend to back up my important CD/DVD data to a new disc (and keep the old copy as well).
Dave.

Norman & Nancy Perry wrote:

*I am considering purchasing a DVD writer so that I can archive m photos. I
use a film scanner to scan my 35mm slides at 4000 dpi which result in a
file size of about 50MB after cropping and correcting in PhotoShop. I like
to save my photos as TIF files so as not to loose any quality. Doe anyone
have any suggestion as to which DVD to purchase? How do most of yo save /
archive your photos? I am open to all suggestions. Thanks, Norm *

I duplicate my data across two drives, If something is on my secon drive for a few months then I usually burn it to CD

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If space is a problem, you can save as compressed TIFF, which is not lossy. You could even save them as jpegs, and thenb convert to tff when you open them. Opening and closing jpegs from the DVD won’t cause any loss, unless its a RW DVD and you save it back to the DVD that way.>

I am considering purchasing a DVD writer so that I can archive my photos

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On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 17:20:40 -0800, "Norman & Nancy Perry" wrote:

I am considering purchasing a DVD writer so that I can archive my photos. I use a film scanner to scan my 35mm slides at 4000 dpi which results in a file size of about 50MB after cropping and correcting in PhotoShop. I like to save my photos as TIF files so as not to loose any quality. Does anyone have any suggestion as to which DVD to purchase? How do most of you save / archive your photos? I am open to all suggestions. Thanks, Norm

DVDs, unlike CDs have a much longer life span. But you ought to consider double archiving. All my images are archived firstly to a firewire hard disk, and secondly to a DVD.

The writer of choice is the Plextor PX-708. You can archive to DVD+R at 8x speed and I’ve never, ever, had a problem with a Plextor drive. They’re built to last and indeed, I have a couple of old working Plextor CD ROM drives around somewhere, one of which lasted in two separate computers for 5 years with no problems and still works now as an installation drive on an old computer 6 years after I bought it. 😉

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They now have DVD Writers that write on both formats of DVD, they are worth looking at. I have a sony.

Mind you, the hdd option is a good one. You can use the removable hdd caddies for that.

"Norman & Nancy Perry" wrote in message

I am considering purchasing a DVD writer so that I can archive my photos.

I

use a film scanner to scan my 35mm slides at 4000 dpi which results in a file size of about 50MB after cropping and correcting in PhotoShop. I

like

to save my photos as TIF files so as not to loose any quality. Does

anyone

have any suggestion as to which DVD to purchase? How do most of you save

/

archive your photos? I am open to all suggestions. Thanks, Norm

I don’t know if I agree with what you’ve said. How come my DVD’s I bought 8 years ago when they first came out still work? How come my CD’s I bought in the lat 80’s still work? Don’t buy crap blanks and you’ll be fine with optical storage unless someone can actually prove that they suck as you’ve stated.

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"Stephan" wrote in message

CDs and DVDs are probably the worth way to safe thing for long term archival.
They have a limited life span to begin with and then they are extremely fragile, DVDs particularly.
I had to throw away several CDs just a few days ago after my machine couldn’t read them. After closer inspection I discovered holes in them

after

turning them towards a light source. They were only about a year old and from a good company.
Hard drives are cheaper every day, until solid state memory, like flash cards, offers larger storage options, HDs are your safest archival

solution.

Stephan

Yes Erik…
I have floppy disks with data I recorded in 1993 that still work too. But I’ve got an alarming number of them recorded recently with no readable data left. Some CDs (Laser brand comes to mind) simply were never manufactured past the beta stage.

It’s not until I used a Professional recording program and discover *all* the information on a CD, that I discovered what a con job many blank vendors have pulled as the price becomes competitive. Good quality blanks will keep their data but only if a good quality recorder is used. The strength of the laser is of vital importance when long life recordings are required.

I found that using a DVD recorder to burn CDR data onto CDRWs produces very stable discs. Many people just won’t spend the money for quality but expect it none the less. 30

I archive to DVD and to a spare HD. But lately I’ve been thinking about the future. I’ve got actual old photos of my grandparents when they were children. Technology keeps advancing and changing and I keep moving digital stuff from one format to another to save it. But those physical photos are still here and can still be easily viewed (or even scanned if it want them digital). I may go through my own digital photos and choose a selection to have printed, just to be sure my grandkids can see them when they are old, without having to locate a 2000’s type reader or computer.

Thoughts?

"Norman & Nancy Perry" wrote in message

I am considering purchasing a DVD writer so that I can archive my photos.

I

use a film scanner to scan my 35mm slides at 4000 dpi which results in a file size of about 50MB after cropping and correcting in PhotoShop. I

like

to save my photos as TIF files so as not to loose any quality. Does

anyone

have any suggestion as to which DVD to purchase? How do most of you save

/

archive your photos? I am open to all suggestions. Thanks, Norm

"Diane" wrote:

I archive to DVD and to a spare HD. But lately I’ve been thinking about the future. I’ve got actual old photos of my grandparents when they were children. Technology keeps advancing and changing and I keep moving digital stuff from one format to another to save it. But those physical photos are still here and can still be easily viewed (or even scanned if it want them digital). I may go through my own digital photos and choose a selection to have printed, just to be sure my grandkids can see them when they are old, without having to locate a 2000’s type reader or computer.
Thoughts?

I think you can wait for around year 2050 to start doing the thinking cuz at that time the technoligy would be much better than what we have now. Or I don’t think your grandkids will have to do what you are thinking now <g>

"Norman & Nancy Perry" wrote in message

I am considering purchasing a DVD writer so that I can archive my photos.

I

use a film scanner to scan my 35mm slides at 4000 dpi which results in a file size of about 50MB after cropping and correcting in PhotoShop. I

like

to save my photos as TIF files so as not to loose any quality. Does

anyone

have any suggestion as to which DVD to purchase? How do most of you save

/

archive your photos? I am open to all suggestions. Thanks, Norm

On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 08:54:39 GMT, "Douglas MacDonald" wrote:

I found that using a DVD recorder to burn CDR data onto CDRWs produces very stable discs. Many people just won’t spend the money for quality but expect it none the less. 30¢ CDs are not archival quality.

Absolutely. I was lucky in that, when I first bought a CD recorder I bought some no name CDs and the first 4 failed. After that I always bought branded ones. They’re not that expensive when you consider that you’re using them to archive material you don’t want to lose.

The same way, my first CD recorder purchase was an HP which I had no end of trouble with. I switched to Plextor and have been using them ever since. And I’ve never burned a coaster with a Plextor drive and branded CD. So I’ve just purchased a Plextor DVD recorder which I’ll use to burn DVD and CD.

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just save then on a zip drive,,they will last for ever

Norman & Nancy Perry wrote in message

I am considering purchasing a DVD writer so that I can archive my photos.

I

use a film scanner to scan my 35mm slides at 4000 dpi which results in a file size of about 50MB after cropping and correcting in PhotoShop. I

like

to save my photos as TIF files so as not to loose any quality. Does

anyone

have any suggestion as to which DVD to purchase? How do most of you save

/

archive your photos? I am open to all suggestions. Thanks, Norm

"pat" <pat @neverlate.time> wrote in message

just save then on a zip drive,,they will last for ever

Spits coffee all over monitor!

"pat" <pat @neverlate.time> wrote in message

just save then on a zip drive,,they will last for ever

I don’t now… I wonder if there would be a way to convert them to an 8 track.

Stephan