Re:give me permanence or give me bit-death! (Score 1)

Uhm... How many pictures do you normally find are lost to data corruption? I take hundreds of photos every month, and I have no problem with corruption. Do you use high quality flash cards? Reliable hard drives? Don't expect for everything to work perfectly if you use the cheapest hardware you can find. Also, if you take so many pictures that you have this problem frequently, be prepared to spend thousands of dollars on archiving your photos the old fashioned way. Also, ever hear of data redundancy?

Also, to the person who uses $2 inks - good luck storing them for a long time. The reason Canon uses their own special photo paper and inks (which are a b*tch on the pocket book), is for photo quality and longevity. Their papers and inks are designed to work together for maximum quality and image life. You can get away with cheaper supplies, but the quality won't be as great, and they certainly won't last as long. Hopefully, with these new inks, Canon will be able to rival Epson's pigment based inks. Epson's inks last longer, but Canon (with red and green inks) has better quality, and faster speed.