[STOCKPHOTO] Archival Gold CDs and DVDs

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Jacques Jangoux

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Jan 4, 2007, 8:18:40 PM1/4/07
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Hello,

I mentioned SlideScribe in my previous post. Surfing around their site
I found Archival Gold CDs and DVDs of the eFilm brand. Anybody knows them?

< http://www.slidescribe.com/cmdn.shtml >

I knew of the Delkin ones. Or is eFilm another brand name for the same
product?

(I had discontinued Kodak ones a few years ago, but my son "stole"
most of them to burn MP3 music).

Jacques Jangoux

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David Riecks

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Jan 5, 2007, 1:46:54 AM1/5/07
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At 11:06 AM 1/4/2007, Jacques Jangoux wrote:
>I knew of the Delkin ones. Or is eFilm another brand name for the same
>product?

Jacques:

If you look at the image of the Gold CD, you'll see that it says
Delkin right on the CD cover.

I was reviewing an article with preliminary results of a NIST test on
CDR's and DVDR's. The Phthalocyanine dye paired with a Gold CDR was
the longest lasting. With most of the DVDR's it's harder to find info
on what Dye they are using, but most at that time, 2004, seemed to be
using Cyanine dyes.

I've been using up the last of stockpile of Kodak CDR's and have been
purchasing the Mitsui/MAM Gold CDR's from Media Supply when I need
the type with a white inkjet printable top.

Hope that helps.

David

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Peter Dean

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Jan 5, 2007, 3:09:55 AM1/5/07
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>I've been using up the last of stockpile of Kodak CDR's and have been
>purchasing the Mitsui/MAM Gold CDR's from Media Supply when I need
>the type with a white inkjet printable top.
>

David
I just bought a large number of MAM-e from a UK supplier who was
informing his clients MAM-e had gone bust.

Maybe it was just a sales ploy ? ;-))
Hopefully it will continue if rescued? Does anyone know anything i
don't?

The BBC use a lot of these archive DVD's with Phthalocyanine dye. I
still prefer my archive on CD but use DVD for working files. If you want
to know what to use as an archive if MAM-e are bust then watch what the
BBC do and follow.

cheers

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Picture Partners

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Jan 5, 2007, 8:23:25 AM1/5/07
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Peter -

And Fuji? The CD's are silver as far as I know, but a 100 year life is promised:

http://www.fujifilm.ca/x854.xml

Frans Rombout
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Ian Murray

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Jan 5, 2007, 8:48:31 AM1/5/07
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Dear all,

Surely the future will be online storage - its already happening with
Digital Railroad and Photoshelter - with duplicate storage sites
around the world with the ability to download and transfer files
anywhere. We'll just process files and then automatically click to
move them to our secure upload area. Agencies will expect high res
delivery online and the idea of mailing shiny disks around the world
or storing them in cabinets will seem laughable. It'll take time
until this is trusted fully but surely it's going to come. Isn't it?

Ian Murray

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> Peter -
>
> And Fuji? The CD's are silver as far as I know, but a 100 year life
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> http://www.fujifilm.ca/x854.xml
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> Frans Rombout
> www.picturepartners.nl
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> In message <6.2.3.4.2.20070105004152.05ba7c18@...>, David
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Rob Wilkinson

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Jan 5, 2007, 9:49:21 AM1/5/07
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Ian Murray wrote:
> Surely the future will be online storage - its already happening with
> Digital Railroad and Photoshelter - with duplicate storage sites
> around the world with the ability to download and transfer files
> anywhere. We'll just process files and then automatically click to
> move them to our secure upload area. Agencies will expect high res
> delivery online and the idea of mailing shiny disks around the world
> or storing them in cabinets will seem laughable. It'll take time
> until this is trusted fully but surely it's going to come. Isn't it?

You are probably right, I'm sure that will be the future .... but how
safe are the servers that they are stored on ... isn't that just
another hard drive somewhere?
Think I will still back up to CD too (just in case!!).
Cheers
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David Riecks

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Ian Murray wrote:

> Dear all,


>
> Surely the future will be online storage - its already happening with
> Digital Railroad and Photoshelter - with duplicate storage sites
> around the world with the ability to download and transfer files
> anywhere.

Ian:

Feel free to base your livelihood on backup copies on online services.
I'm not sure I'm that confident that the service I choose will never go
out of business, or decide to increase my costs of storage to the point
where it's prohibitive to leave my information there.

With that in mind I'm going to have at least one archival copy (and
preferably one onsite and one offsite) under my control. One of those
might be on Gold CDR or Gold DVDR.


David

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Peter Dean

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Jan 5, 2007, 10:38:54 AM1/5/07
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In message <enlkso+h3gp@eGroups.com>, Ian Murray
<idmurray@totalise.co.uk> writes


>Dear all,
>
>Surely the future will be online storage

Ian
I was talking about that place full of dust and cobwebs you don't go
until there is a catastrophe. Ideally this should be in a secure nuclear
bunker! :-) I would regard online storage as a good working archive and
a useful backup as a bonus.



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Peter Dean

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Jan 5, 2007, 10:51:16 AM1/5/07
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In message <00a201c730ca$2fc19010$0b01a8c0@SCANCOMPUTER>, Picture
Partners <PICTURE@XS4ALL.NL> writes


>Peter -
>
>And Fuji? The CD's are silver as far as I know, but a 100 year life is
>promised:
>

Frans
I will let you know in 100 years ;-)
I think the colours are more related to branding than precious metal but
even if they do contain gold or silver if they don't contain the
unpronounceable and difficult to spell dye i would not regard them as
"archival" . But who knows for sure? Its all a best guesstimate at best;
eh?



cheers
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Ian Murray

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> Ian
> I was talking about that place full of dust and cobwebs you don't go
> until there is a catastrophe.

Pete,

Like going home when the pub closes?

Cheers

Ian Murray

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Ian Murray

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David,

I wouldn't dream of doing so now but in ten to fifteen years I would
be surprised if the problems you mention hadn't been overcome, though
I'd probably still back up my RAWs! The idea of relying on entirely
online banking seemed outrageous only a short few years ago.

Now where are my floppy discs with all those essential Word files?

Ian Murray

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David Riecks

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At 02:08 AM 1/5/2007, Peter Dean wrote:
>The BBC use a lot of these archive DVD's with Phthalocyanine dye. I
>still prefer my archive on CD but use DVD for working files.

Peter:

How do you know that the DVDR's were created with Phthalocyanine
dye? Is that what MAM-e is claiming?



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Peter Dean

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>At 02:08 AM 1/5/2007, Peter Dean wrote:
>>The BBC use a lot of these archive DVD's with Phthalocyanine dye. I
>>still prefer my archive on CD but use DVD for working files.
>
>Peter:
>
>How do you know that the DVDR's were created with Phthalocyanine
>dye? Is that what MAM-e is claiming?
>
David

Our UK supplier cdteam.co.uk know a thing or three. Check their site.
Mam-e were making a DVD with the dye but the future is now uncertain.
The BBC were buying a lot of the DVD's. I am using the CD with the dye
but use a scratchproof "normal" TDK DVD for working files together with
hard drives for work in progress. I was considering using the DVD with
dye but its academic unless another company takes over the process. Lets
hope so. If not Taiyo Yuden discs look like replacements for archive if
mam-e don't resurrect according to CD team. If you check their site they
say TY discs may become available as DVD.

When you consider how many RAW files and jpgs will be deleted by
photographers before they get to be seen and the iffy nature of media it
will be a miracle if any 21C images make it to the 22C. But if they do
someone will probably put them in a disused salt mine so they can't be
seen anyway ;-)



cheers
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ARLETTE DESRANLEAU

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>I wouldn't dream of doing so now but in ten to fifteen years I would
>be surprised if the problems you mention hadn't been overcome, though
>I'd probably still back up my RAWs! The idea of relying on entirely
>online banking seemed outrageous only a short few years ago.

More than once in the last year or two I have seen entire systems (banking)
come to a grinding halt. ATMs don't function, the bank computers don't, and
because they are so paranoid . . . even if you can find a branch with a
teller, you won't get a cent "until the problem is cleared up sir". These
"systems" are run by "experts" . . . just like your on-line systems. Like
David, I will rely on someone reliable . . . me . . . and a bunch of dust
gathering cds.

Paul Aparycki

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--- In STOCKPHOTO@yahoogroups.com, "David Riecks" <david@...> wrote:
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> Ian Murray wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Surely the future will be online storage - its already happening
with
> > Digital Railroad and Photoshelter - with duplicate storage sites
> > around the world with the ability to download and transfer files
> > anywhere.
>
> Ian:
>
> Feel free to base your livelihood on backup copies on online
services.
> I'm not sure I'm that confident that the service I choose will
never go
> out of business, or decide to increase my costs of storage to the
point
> where it's prohibitive to leave my information there.

Beyond this, online recovery is simply not a practical technology
for most photography operations. Assuming one only needs to recover
250GB of data (which is not a lot for a stock archive) it would take
over 19 days to download it over a dedicated T1 line (i.e. 1.5Mbps).

Of course, most of us do not have dedicated T1s, so a quick quiz to
those using online backups over high-speed cable or ADSL links:

Have you checked your high-speed cable or ADSL contracts to ensure
that your internet provider will allow you to download large amounts
of data in the event of a disaster? What about surcharges?

Have you considered that if you ever have to recover any of your
gigs of data as a result of a large scale natural or man-made
disaster, there's a high likelihood you'll be doing it from a motel
room with only dial-up access available? Have you considered this
might be the same motel housing hundreds of other guests that were
also displaced and who are likely clogging up the phone system with
their own emergencies?

There are much better options out there with 250GB external hard
drives costing less than $100, both in terms of cost, efficiency,
and practicality.

Best regards,

Rubens.
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Ian Murray

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> Of course, most of us do not have dedicated T1s, so a quick quiz to
> those using online backups over high-speed cable or ADSL links:
>
> Have you checked your high-speed cable or ADSL contracts to ensure
> that your internet provider will allow you to download large amounts
> of data in the event of a disaster? What about surcharges?

Rubens,

Ten years ago I first bought a computer. There was next to nothing on
the web. No photo sites. No banking. No online stores. No proper seacrh
engines until Alta Vista. I had 56k dial up.

In 2117 how far will the internet have advanced?

Will computer still come with slots for CDs and DVDs- or will they be
expensive oddities?

I think that the infrastructure will move more and more online. People
will feel compelled to join in or be caught out just as some
traditional agencies have been by online agencies.

In the meantime I use several external hard drives plus DVDs.

Regards,

Ian Murray

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