Re: Counteracting data transience
Re: Counteracting data transience
- Subject: Re: Counteracting data transience
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:43:53 -0600
- Thread-topic: Counteracting data transience
On 7/15/07 4:08 PM, "Marco Ugolini" wrote:
> That is what happens when universally-recognized and -supported standards
> are *not* put in place in order to safeguard today's data into a future that
> goes well beyond the 18-month software upgrade cycle.
Like PhotoYCC (PhotoCD Image pack) which isn't supported on Intel Mac's in
CS3 thanks to Kodak?
Don't know about the rest of you, but I have THOUSANDS of scans, both master
and Pro PCD that I can no longer access unless I have a non Intel Mac or
keep Photoshop CS2 around because the plug-in will not be updated to acquire
the data on Intel Macs. I have a single machine that can boot OS9 and that's
long in the tooth (meaning I'd like to get rid of it). How long will it be
before I have no PPC Mac's? Yet what about those images? I'm forced to
render them which, like raw, makes the unique capabilities of the PhotoYCC
image pack moot (plus a heck of a lot of work on my part).
I'm not sure how many of my legacy Kodak DCS images from way back when will
be able to be rendered in the foreseeable future either. We're talking less
than 10 years here boys and girls. Film I shot in the 70's, while maybe not
as pristine as the day they were processed can still be scanned and used. So
this paranoid concept of getting to our data isn't science fiction.
On the other hand, I was able to open a PSD I created in 1990, in PS 1.0.7
on a Mac II ci on my Macbook pro in CS3 with no issues at all.
OK, this may not be a pertinent issue for the ColorSync list in general but
it is an important issue.
Off the soap box for the evening.....
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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