Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]
At 5:41 PM -0700 1/14/01, Steve Barbour wrote:
>Thanks Henning...so the specific Kodak type is called what... and where do
>you find the cheapest price? Thanks Steve
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 2:32 PM
>Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Archival of digital images
>
>
>> I've had a CD writer for quite a number of years (I'm on my third one
>> now) and I've seen the media prices go from $20 to less than $.50.
>> I've had good media, bad media, media that could only be read in
>> certain drives etc. The only stuff that has worked consistently well
>> is gold surfaced media.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the only media that I've seen that always has a gold
>> surface is Kodak's, and it usually costs 2-4x what the cheapest
>> costs. But it seems really inexpensive compared with buying a stack
>> of 50 or 100 CD's that don't verify properly, or cause other problems.
>>
>> I also recently ran into another problem. I bought some Maxell CD-R
>> 700Mb which say on the box 'Branded Gold Surface'. However, the
>> actual color is blue-green, which in my experience is usually the
>> worst. They seem to work OK at present, but I'm not putting anything
>> on them that I want to see in 25 years.
>>
> > I'm going to stick to Kodak media from now on.
I've only seen gold Kodak disks, and I don't know if they sell any
other kind. Here in Vancouver the best price tends to be around $1.50
CDN. Once in a while someone has them on sale for just over a dollar,
and sometimes I can't find any for less than $1.75.
- --
* Henning J. Wulff
/|\ Wulff Photography & Design
/###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com
|[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com