Re: [at-l] photography equipment... Digital for now, or Film for later?

["Kurtis Kirsch" <kurtkirsch@hotmail.com>]

If your looking to do a web page during your hike, then digital would seem
to be the easiest and maybe cheapest way to go, in the short run.  Scanning
photos takes some time, and if you already have someone working on your web
page and transcribing your journal, you may not want them having to scan
photos, too.  So it's a choice: digital photos, less quality (for the time
being), but less work for those at home working on your web page (unless
your willing to carry a laptop along on your journey, and do the work on the
trail, and enjoy the trail less, IMHO), OR use film, better long term
quality (with quality prints scanned into a computer, and someplace to store
your photos, like a Zip drive, or CD-R/RW drive, because you never know when
a virus will destroy all the data on your hard drive or it plain decides to
quit, and then all your photos will be lost), but more work for that person
at home.  Of course, there is a way to do most of this work while hiking, if
you put a computer and a scanner in your send-ahead box, and do the work
during town stops, but this will cut into the time to find where the beer is
in town :^)

Kurt AT96-98

http://member.aol.com/kurtuser/kuwpage.htm



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