Chris wrote:
I've been reading this thread on the "archiveability" of digital prints and no one has brought up this point on digital photos: Although the prints expire, the digital data does not. As long as you reburn your CDR's every 5 to 10 years and keep more than one copy, your image will never fade, will never lose it's origional quality, and you can always print new prints (with probably even better printer quality with every print). CDR's should last 50 to 100 years, so this is a very conservative approach.
That sounds better than any photo print archive method or scheme I've ever heard of and it certainly beats the life expectancy of normal color photos.
While that is certainly a solution, for some of us with literally tens of thousands of frames archived, it just isn't practical from a time standpoint. You'd need to set aside a couple of months every 5 to 10 years just to re-burn the entire archive! C.