I have heard that the quality of a photographic digital image on my hard drive starts to deteriorate after a year or so.I've been told that saving them in a disc or exterior hard drive can prevent this. Also heard that if I screen the images that this extends the life. What sort of disc is best for preserving these images. Any info appreciated.Thanks.:smilewave
Total rubbish. It is digital data, and will remain its original quality indefinitely. A more serious concern is that the hard disk could fail which would mean losing everything. Back them up regularly onto CD, DVD or whatever, along with all your other work etc. A printed copy of a digital photo could deteriorate over time depending on the quality of the paper and the ink, but that's no problem as you can just print another one. An inkjet print of a photo on the wall where it gets exposed to some sun each day may begin to show signs of fading within a year or so.
It's worth noting that I've heard writeable CDs and DVDs are prone to degrading over time (say in the 5 to 10 year range), because really all that's being done is a laser is used to manipulate a thin layer of dye encased in the plastic. Anyway, from what I hear, using an external hard drive that you use on a fairly regular basis is probably the best way of preserving copies of files, although CD and DVD copies are good to have to. It all depends on how paranoid you are.
Never heard of it...well, if it does...how it comes called digital:lol: I saved all my photos to DVD and CD just in case for my hard drive decides crush and lose everything:eek:
The pictures which begin to deteriorate after a year or so if left in suboptimal conditions are REGULAR photos, not digital ones.
