Tuesday, October 17, 2006

How To Preserve Photos For 500 Years

Arik Hesseldahl wrote on Forbes:
"Consumers have some latent fear and doubt that they don't have time to manage the storage of their photos, or they're unsure about how to do it."

In May 2004, the firm found that 59% of digital camera users make backup copies of their digital photos, but less than half have backups for their backups. Some use online photo sites like Shutterfly, Hewlett-Packard's (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) Snapfish or Eastman Kodak's (nyse: EK - news - people ) EasyShare Gallery service.

Managing these files is a trickier issue for professionals, partly because of the volume of files to save and store, not to mention the potential for a loss of livelihood.

"Everyone sees the mass of digital files that everyone is holding as a growing problem," says Jack Reznicki, a commercial photographer in New York whose clients include AT&T (nyse: T - news - people ) and Toys "R" Us (nyse: TOY - news - people ).

For other photographers, archiving is critical because of the historical importance of the subjects being photographed.

Full article here:
http://www.forbes.com/infoimaging/2005/04/14/cx_ah_0414photo.html

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