zaterdag, februari 04, 2006
A serious long term problem with RAW format
http://www.openraw.org/ has highlighted a growing concern about raw formats: The ability to open raw files in the years to come: Photographers will find their older images inaccessible, as future software versions lose support for older cameras. In the worst cases, entire brands may disappear, as has already happened with Contax.
Commentaar van fotojournalist Bruno Stevens:
That is an excellent if frightening article, but it doesn't even touch the nightmare of long term 'passive' digital archive, for wich there is only ONE solution...and I am not joking...shoot film! This isn't coming from a passeist pseudo-nostalgic amateur (you know me, I shoot all formats, analog AND digital), quite the contrary; but how do you make sure that say, 50 years from now, it will be possible to: 1° connect your 2006 hard drives to the 2056 systems, 2° read its formatting, 3° make sense of tens of thousands files containing just numbers, 4° knowing what the pictures are and where and by whom they were taken, 5° as this article says, open the raws and finding the appropriate camera profile they were shot with, and then, only then, start editing the stuff???? On the other end, a folder containing numbered negatives and corresponding contact sheets, will still be IMMEDIATELY viewable and understandable by anyone, without the need of ANY equipment or software for hundreds of years...it is A LOT easier today to see and edit the images on 1850 glass plates than on a 1999 SCSI hard disk...
Bron: Lightstalkers.
Commentaar van fotojournalist Bruno Stevens:
That is an excellent if frightening article, but it doesn't even touch the nightmare of long term 'passive' digital archive, for wich there is only ONE solution...and I am not joking...shoot film! This isn't coming from a passeist pseudo-nostalgic amateur (you know me, I shoot all formats, analog AND digital), quite the contrary; but how do you make sure that say, 50 years from now, it will be possible to: 1° connect your 2006 hard drives to the 2056 systems, 2° read its formatting, 3° make sense of tens of thousands files containing just numbers, 4° knowing what the pictures are and where and by whom they were taken, 5° as this article says, open the raws and finding the appropriate camera profile they were shot with, and then, only then, start editing the stuff???? On the other end, a folder containing numbered negatives and corresponding contact sheets, will still be IMMEDIATELY viewable and understandable by anyone, without the need of ANY equipment or software for hundreds of years...it is A LOT easier today to see and edit the images on 1850 glass plates than on a 1999 SCSI hard disk...
Bron: Lightstalkers.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 12:28
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