I know I have bee in my bonnet about this but I do feel that an awful lot of digital content will, in time, be lost for numerous reasons. This is why I am trying to keep a real record/copy of some of the things I am producing. This is taking the form of books and prints. Now the things may be of no value to anyone other than me but they still need to be saved in a form that is not at the whim of changes in format/compatibility etc. I am of the generation that remembers laser disk, Betamax or more recently HD DVD. Now I am not saying that TIFF, JPEG or RAW files will go that way in the near future but one day?
I am now starting to print my digital art and keep that in a scrap book. No doubt in the near future I will produce a book for the same reason. It is wonderful to view such things on a screen but it doesn't replace the joy of seeing something in the real world.
Simon Marchini LRPS
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