[PRCo] Backing up digital photos

Mon Nov 5 18:32:17 EST 2007

I back-up my digital photos onto a CD at least once a week, and more often 
if I take a lot of photos on a given day.

Bob 11/5/07

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Dietrich" <bdietrich at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 8:01 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Kodak

>I have an experience loosing images from a CD.  One directory just
> disappeared on me awhile back.  I guess the solution is to make copied 
> every
> year or so.  Hmmm maybe I better start now.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Howard
> Andrews
> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 4:25 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Kodak
>
> Yes, the world is changing.  A very good friend of mine had been running a
> photo lab.  He finally gave up and closed the business - in the past two
> years he saw his gross sales drop to 20% of what they were.  People simply
> are not getting prints made from digital images.
>
> Today we have the great images from earlier rail fans - especially the B&W
> negatives.  The thing is B&W images have an almost indefinite life.  Color
> film (especially that from the 1970) is fading as I write this... and in 
> 25
> years or so will be gone.
>
> Digital images don't fade - or do they.  CD's only have a 5-10 year life.
> After that all bets are off.  Harddrives wearout or crash.  Point being,
> digital images can disappear just like color.
>
> So, where does this leave us.... our kids/grandkids will most likely be
> missing a big chunk of our visual history as color and digital images
> disintegrate.
>
> Oh yea, ink jet prints have a limited life also - last I remember reading
> they last about 25 years.
>
> If you want to leave a visual record get good old fashion B&W film, if you
> can find it!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 11:03 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Kodak
>
> The local dealer only stocks film for me and then only because I come
> in and tell them when I'm going away.
>
> The other option is B&H Photo via the internet if you want slide film.
>
> On Nov 3, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Bob Rathke wrote:
>
>> I 've taken more than 80,000 slide photos over the past 50 years,
>> but last
>> Fall I bit the bullet and started using a digital camera. I realize
>> that
>> even the highest megapixel digital cameras don't approach the
>> resolution of
>> slide film (I have a report that says that ASA100 slide film has
>> resolution
>> equivalent to 30 megapixels), but I've really gotten used to using
>> a digital
>> camera in the past year, and now I'm taking 2-3X more photos per
>> month than
>> I did with the chemical cameras.
>>
>> Last week I realized that I haven't taken a film photo in nearly a
>> year, so
>> I checked my 35mm SLR and found that it contained a roll of slide
>> film with
>> 12 exposures made at the end of 2006.  So I snapped off the
>> remaining 24
>> exposures around the neighborhood (the leaves on the trees are just
>> starting
>> to turn here), and took the film to the photo store for processing
>> before it
>> expires.  While there I asked if they still sell much slide film,
>> and the
>> store manager pointed to the film rack on the wall - not a single
>> roll of
>> slide film was in it, and only about 15 rolls of print film.
>>
>> He also asked if I take railroad photos.  I was surprised by his
>> question
>> and answered yes. He said that most of the slide film they've sold
>> in recent
>> years has been to railroad photographers.
>>
>> Bob 11/3/07
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jim Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
>> To: "- 1714 PRCo__WP__JTC -" <pittsburgh-railways at lists.dementia.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 4:50 AM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Kodak
>>
>>
>>> This has been mentioned here before -- Digital vs. Film:::::::
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> """Digital PROFITS--[emphasis added] surged to $82 million from $28
>>> million..."""
>>>
>>>
>>>  Eastman Kodak Posts 3Q Profit, Sales Dip
>>>
>>> By BEN DOBBIN, AP Business Writer
>>>
>>> Thursday, November 1, 2007
>>>
>>> (11-01) 14:42 PDT Rochester, N.Y. (AP) --
>>>
>>> Eastman *Kodak* Co., rounding the final bend in a four-year digital
>>> overhaul, swung to a $37 million profit in the third quarter
>>> Thursday as
>>> digital revenue almost tripled and wider profit margins
>>> overshadowed a
>>> slight drop in overall sales.
>>>
>>> The photography products maker earned the equivalent of 13 cents a
>>> share
>>> in the July-September quarter, mirroring a loss of $37 million, or 13
>>> cents a share, a year earlier when it also took hefty charges.
>>>
>>> Sales eased to $2.58 billion from $2.60 billion in last year's third
>>> quarter.
>>>
>>> Excluding one-time restructuring costs of $96 million, or 33 cents a
>>> share, operating profits came to $128 million, or 46 cents a
>>> share. On
>>> average, analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial forecast a profit
>>> of 27
>>> cents a share on sales of $2.49 billion. The earnings estimates
>>> typically exclude one-time items.
>>>
>>> *Kodak* shares fell 90 cents, or 3.1 percent, to close at $27.76
>>> Thursday.
>>>
>>> Digital profits surged to $82 million from $28 million as sales
>>> rose 1
>>> percent to $1.123 billion. In contrast, earnings from film, paper and
>>> other traditional, chemical-based products slumped from $110
>>> million to
>>> $91 million as sales plunged 16 percent to $986 million.
>>>
>>> *Kodak* said gross profit margin rose to 26.4 percent for the
>>> quarter,
>>> compared with 25.1 percent a year earlier. It also reported a
>>> lower debt
>>> level of $1.63 billion at the end of the quarter versus $2.78
>>> billion at
>>> the end of 2006.
>>>
>>> "In my view, all the pieces are coming together," *Kodak*'s chief
>>> executive, Antonio Perez, said in a conference call with analysts.
>>> "We
>>> have created with all this work a much more cost-effective business
>>> model .... from which I believe we can launch and sustain profitable
>>> growth."
>>>
>>> Ulysses Yannas, a broker with Buckman, Buckman & Reid in New York,
>>> thinks *Kodak*'s transformation is "coming to a successful end" with
>>> increasingly profitable digital businesses "now taking over from
>>> film.
>>> They've survived the restructuring not as a second-rate company
>>> but as a
>>> first-rate company. That's the important part."
>>>
>>> But analyst Shannon Cross of Cross Research in Short Hills, N.J.,
>>> cautioned that operating profits in the quarter were driven by
>>> "leveraging cost-cutting in the film business" and one-time royalty
>>> payments from digital-camera technology.
>>>
>>> "It's still difficult to determine what the long-term, core operating
>>> profit of this company will be because ... we're not going to really
>>> know for a couple of years the scope of the investments they're
>>> making
>>> right now in things like inkjet printers and CMOS (image sensors in
>>> digital cameras)."
>>>
>>> The company reiterated its guidance for 2007 operating earnings of
>>> $300
>>> million to $400 million.
>>>
>>> In 2003, *Kodak* acknowledged its analog businesses were sliding
>>> irreversibly and outlined a strategy to become a digital front
>>> runner in
>>> photography and commercial printing by 2008. It embarked on a
>>> nearly $3
>>> billion shopping spree but also began closing film, paper and other
>>> raw-materials plants around the world.
>>>
>>> Shifting from a shrinking film business into the highly competitive
>>> digital arena has proved costly. *Kodak* has piled up nearly $3.3
>>> billion in restructuring charges and accumulated $2.1 billion in net
>>> losses over the last 12 quarters - nine of which ended in deficits.
>>>
>>> In February, the photography pioneer said it was eliminating 3,000
>>> more
>>> jobs, raising its planned tally of layoffs to 28,000 to 30,000 since
>>> 2004. But the company said Thursday that the layoff count will
>>> actually
>>> end up between 27,000 and 28,000.
>>>
>>> By year-end, its work force could slip to around 34,000, less than
>>> half
>>> what it was at the end of 2002.
>>>
>>> Revenues from consumer digital imaging products rose 1 percent in the
>>> quarter to $1.23 billion, helped by a 16 percent jump in sales of
>>> cameras, retail kiosks and other digital products but offset by its
>>> costly foray into a high-margin inkjet-printer market dominated by
>>> Hewlett Packard Co. *Kodak* is aiming to sell a half-million inkjet
>>> printers this year and reach $1 billion in sales by 2010.
>>>
>>> Graphic communications revenues rose 5 percent to $928 million,
>>> driven
>>> by improved sales of digital plates and software.
>>>
>>> In the first nine months of the year, *Kodak* earned $461 million, or
>>> $1.60 a share, compared with a loss of $617 million, or $2.15 a
>>> share,
>>> in the first three quarters of 2006. But sales fell to $7.2
>>> billion from
>>> $7.57 billion - reflecting the $2.35 billion sale in April of its
>>> 110-year-old health-imaging business.
>>>
>>> ___
>>>
>>> On the Net:
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/24uskl
>>> *
>>> *
>>>
>>> http://www.*kodak*.com <http://www.kodak.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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