> > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/11/22 Thu AM 08:38:53 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: SV: One shot a week for 6-8 years > > Why not? Sheesh, this stuff is not fragile. The first digital camera > I owned, bought in 1997, is still working perfectly. It's the camera > module sold for a Palm Vx. The Canon 10D I sold a couple months ago > is dates from the beginning of 2003 years old, nearly five years old, > the batteries are plentiful, and it worked still like it was brand > new with 40,000 exposures on the clock. It will certainly work fine > for its new owner for another five years.
That is definitely _not_ certain. Quite likely, maybe. What is more likely is that, should it fail in 4years 9months time, it will not be a very simple task to replace it with an identical model, due the the very short retail lives of these things. > > In 8 years you might not be able to buy film. Regardless of that, > you'd be MUCH more likely to be able to process a set of digital > captures from a couple of different cameras to all have the same > white balance and rendering then you would 8 years worth of different > batches of film, and with much less effort. Think about it. As Jens has pointed out, he will be buying enough film for the project at the beginning. I would suggest buying processing capability, too. The real answer to this project, whichever system of producing it is chosen, is redundancy. More than one of whatever it is you are going to use. _That_ is much more important than the system used. > > G > > On Nov 21, 2007, at 8:41 PM, Jens Bladt wrote: > > > Godfrey, I wouldn't want to rely on a digtial camera to be > > operational over > > this long period of time - eight years is a long time. Can I still get > > battteries for it in 8 years? If it dies, can I replace it with a > > compatible > > one? > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
