David is absolutely right about Silkpix - at least for my L1. Yet, I'm so lazy ...Other - HD, floppy and DVD use the same encoding - the problems if ever, might be for future generations, not ours. They <ill have to become archeologists and decypher the Digital Rosetta stone prior to viewing our masterpieces ;-)
Amitiés Phoh yes - LR, you can extend the use and experiments by changing the clock on your computer - but it can result in a mess for dates, and more importantly to other applications/programmes ...
Miha Golobic wrote:
Thanks again!It feels good to learn something from you. I have just downloaded LR (30-day trial version). Spela is already angry with me, saying I spend way too much time at my comp. Best regards, Miha - slightly digitalized2009/2/1 <wildlightphoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:wildlightphoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>Miha Golobic > >And as a side note, backups on DVDs or external drivers wont last forever >(well nothing does). And reading a DVD after 10 years is very questionable. >Even if the DVD itself holds, the format (and the software to read) might be >well forgotten in 10 years (do you still remember floppy disk ;-))) > I've been backing up on multiple CDs and a pair of external hard drives. The hard drives are for immediate access, the CDs are for off-site archiving. The CDs are mostly for the exceptional photos that would be impossible to replicate; one copy to by brother near San Francisco, one to my daughter presently in Hawaii. Doug Herr Birdman of Hawaii http://www.wildlightphoto.com <http://www.wildlightphoto.com/> ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/