A Photo a Day

February 7, 2004

Pictures on CD

Filed under: — Laurenz @ 7:27 pm

Regardless of whether they have been taken directly with a digital camera or scanned from film:
Lots of images are saved onto CDs and DVDs every day.
But: how safe are they there.
Reading an article in a German Computer Magazine I realised that this may not be for eternity.
Prints and slides always have deteriorated over time - the same seems to be true for digital storage media.
Quite possible that we won’t be able to read them in a few years?

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Random post from the past:

Boy with tin drum at the Louvre

When looking for reflections of the Louvre in the windows of the Louvre, I realized a little figure sitting precariously high under the windows of the world's most famous museum. Only when looking at him through my tele lens, I realized that this was art - not suicidal behaviour. I wonder how many times a day the police are called to help? Presumably it's just a reference to Günter Grass' Oskar Matzerath from the "tin drum". Enlarged view of the boy with his tin drum. ...

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