Preserving digital photos

The BBC reports today on a study showing that while nearly all Britons have digital cameras, relatively few are doing much to back up or otherwise safeguard the pictures they take. No surprise to anyone, I'd think, but a good occasion to note that your best and most practical option is probably burning the image files onto an archival-quality CD or DVD. With the sheer number of optical disks out there, there won't be any problem finding something to read them for many years to come.

Previous post on archival disks here; most of the links no longer seem to work, though they did up until very recently. Google caches of some here and here.

Posted by David on August 3, 2006 9:51 AM