Get the Picture: Digital Cameras and CD-R Need Each Other

Conventional photographs, properly kept, can survive for a hundred years, but where’s the digital photo storage equivalent? Storing photos on expensive flash memory cards won’t preserve them forever, nor will dumping them onto volatile hard drives, corruptible magnetic tape, or floppy disks. Surely universally readable, durable, reliable, portable, and embarrassingly inexpensive CD-R media makes a …

Continue reading ‘Get the Picture: Digital Cameras and CD-R Need Each Other’ »