[photo-3d] digital family memories

["Jim Harp" <matmail2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>Therefore, my goal is to leave my daughter an annotated family album.  The 
>quickest and easiest way I have found to do this is to switch to digital for 
>snaps.  I have a nice little program ["Gallery", got it off of the net] which 
>builds thumbnails, a click'n'go thumbnail page and lets me attach text to the 
>images. 

I'm concerned that there isn't a digital storage medium currently available
that will safely retain images for the long term.  I believe CDRs are
supposed to be good for about 12 years if stored in ideal conditions.   Most
hard drives fail sooner than that.  There's also the question of how easy it
will be to access turn of the century digital photo formats in say the year
2040.   Of course if you regularly back up your image data to new storage
media and formats this won't be a problem, but often family photos are
stored away and their value isn't realized until years have passed.  Perhaps
we should all be copying our treasured family digital photos onto
Kodachrome, which seems unsurpassed as a long term storage media for color
images.  Jim Harp