"Chris Curtis"
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Nov 10, 2007, 10:21 AM
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"TOCA" <Not@valid.com> wrote in message
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> "Chris Curtis" <chris@nospam.net> skrev i en meddelelse
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>> Hi Tommy
>> I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one!
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> Well that's a start ;o)
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>> I get 80 pictures from a 5megapixel camera on a 128mb card. This also
>> disciplines me to download them onto the computer frequently. I know
>> people with 1Gb or 2Gb cards who have never bothered. In my book that is
>> a disaster waiting to happen.
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> Agree, have heard about such people, but never met one. If I did, i would
> sertainly advice him/her to do the right thing, transfer to harddrive, and
> CD-R.
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> On the other hand, most people tends to make a lot of pictures (and
> videos), and then storre them on the only harddrive, they have, and never
> think about them, untill the PC breaks down, duno which is worse?
Equally tragic I guess!
I've lost count the number of people I've had to point out to, that haven't
got any back up routine in place for their pictures.
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>>You'll find this is a view shared by professionals though in their case
>>they are more likely to be talking about using 2 x 2Gb rather than a
>>single 4Gb!
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> Again: Depends, if you are on a photoopp. then the bigger the better, hate
> to fumble with cards in the midle of a shooting, if you're on vacation in
> some tourrist trap, then smaller is better, and changing often is safer.
> Loosing your camera in a caffé or shopping mall, is sad and annoying, but
> loosing all the pictures aswell, is a total downer.
On a longer vacation I will also get full cards transferred to Cd; there are
many places now offering this cheaply.
Though some might consider this is edging towards paranoia!
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>> The same with HDD camcorders. Experience tells me that the average user
>> is going to leave recordings in situ and a hard disk can hold a lot. As
>> for 'bumps and shakes' a typical recording environment is more than
>> likely to provide some of those. And how many users do you see wearing a
>> strap round their neck? I saw someone drop their camcorder in Vegas the
>> other week.
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> Bet it was followed by some ecsottic words ;o)
Indeed, though in this case it was onto carpet in one of the hotels!
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>> Now those comments ARE 'oldschool'!
>> We're not talking about vcr's! Just how much use do you think a camcorder
>> tape is going to get? I'm working on the premise that a user might just
>> buy more than one. They are not being subjected to huge amounts of
>> rewinding, etc. Sure, tape transport systems are highly mechanical but it
>> is fair to assume that they have been improved over the years. Certainly
>> within my experience and colleagues, I have never had of a problem. But
>> if there was the worst scenario is that you have lost an hours content.
>> You seem to forget that we are talking about the medium which is still
>> considered one of the safest for data backup in the corporate world. We
>> use a modest 40 Gb tape system on our network and the tapes (which are
>> subjected to a lot of stress) are extremely reliable. I recently restored
>> from a ten year old one with no problems. They may be technically
>> sensitive to magnetic and x-rays but my experience is that there is no
>> affect on them from airport equipment. Indeed 90% of my camcorder use has
>> involved transporting them as hand luggage through airports!
>>
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> The fact that "corporate world" still uses tapes for backup, is because
> it's the technology they know, Backup harddrives are faster, and just as
> reliable today, and the prices are getting close to equal.
I'm sure that hard drives will eventually take over and for large companies
with huge data backup requirements I'm sure this is often the case.
In fact some of our full backups now rely on external drives together with
the use of device imaging software.
However, our daily schedules rely on me carrying 15 small tapes in my
briefcase and because they are light, that is no problem.
> I know that modern videotapes, are not Betamax, and they don't get as
> abused as music casette tapes did, but tape is tape, it's still a string
> of thinn plastic, with ironoxide painted to one side, and they still needs
> a lot of moving parts in the camera or player, to work, I don't trust
> them. But for the occasianal recording of the youngsters growing up, and a
> trip to Disneyworld once a year, they are enough, for Joe Average, if he
> remembers so transfer the recordings to his PC, as soon as he gets home,
> and make backups to CD's or DVD's.
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> Tommy C
I agree that type of use is important and suspect the most popular is the
one you have described.
Chris
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