maandag, april 05, 2004
Vandaag verscheen een interessant en leerzaam artikel in een Amerikaans dagblad onder de titel Avoid digital frustration. Hierin doet een documentairemaker en technologieredacteur verslag van zijn worsteling met digitale camera's:
As digital cameras became more feature-rich, they also became less reliable. You need a bigger chip. You need endless batteries. You need the cord to connect to the camera. You have to know something about the proper contacts at either end of that cord. You need the proper software installed, somewhere, to "best" download the photo from the camera.
When you take a photo, you often have to save it physically, i.e. make a decision right then whether you like it or not. When you download all the files - all with inexplicable file names - you have to create new folders, name them, and otherwise manage the files. Forever. If you don't back up the files - several times on different mediums - the likelihood of a complete disk crash is directly proportionate to the importance of the images. And if the file is deleted somehow - it doesn't matter how - it is completely gone in the blink of an eye.
This is all beginning to sound like a hassle to me. I can load a roll of film, know it will work, take it to the drugstore, and be done with it. I can archive it for a hundred years by tossing the envelope of negatives into a big envelope, where they can sit forever, as negatives require almost no physical space. The negatives are transferable to any known medium, for all practical purposes, forever.
De echte gruwelverhalen uit de praktijk staan in het artikel.
As digital cameras became more feature-rich, they also became less reliable. You need a bigger chip. You need endless batteries. You need the cord to connect to the camera. You have to know something about the proper contacts at either end of that cord. You need the proper software installed, somewhere, to "best" download the photo from the camera.
When you take a photo, you often have to save it physically, i.e. make a decision right then whether you like it or not. When you download all the files - all with inexplicable file names - you have to create new folders, name them, and otherwise manage the files. Forever. If you don't back up the files - several times on different mediums - the likelihood of a complete disk crash is directly proportionate to the importance of the images. And if the file is deleted somehow - it doesn't matter how - it is completely gone in the blink of an eye.
This is all beginning to sound like a hassle to me. I can load a roll of film, know it will work, take it to the drugstore, and be done with it. I can archive it for a hundred years by tossing the envelope of negatives into a big envelope, where they can sit forever, as negatives require almost no physical space. The negatives are transferable to any known medium, for all practical purposes, forever.
De echte gruwelverhalen uit de praktijk staan in het artikel.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 11:43
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