Worried about Memory Card Durability?

A great Canadian story yesterday - where a guys camera was lost at sea - and recovered two years later. Images and Video were intact on the memory card:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/shipwrecked-camera-found-underwater-after-2-years-with-photos-intact-1.2651173



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Hi, Robert,

Robert Watcher said:

A great Canadian story yesterday - where a guys camera was lost at sea - and recovered two years later. Images and Video were intact on the memory card:

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It is reassuring that we can be confident that our images, on a memory card, will survive for two years.

That's a long time. Still, I have piles of papers unfiled for longer than that.

Best regards,

Doug

Doug Kerr said:

Hi, Robert,



It is reassuring that we can be confident that our images, on a memory card, will survive for two years.

That's a long time. Still, I have piles of papers unfiled for longer than that.

Best regards,

Doug

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True - but what if they were deep in water with animal life attaching themselves to the pages? LOL

A photographer I was talking to about this story, came up with the idea of it being like a time capsule or message in a bottle type thing, except..memory card in a camera. I thought what a great idea - with all of the outdated cameras, and small storage memory cards we photographers end with sitting in boxes never to be used again.

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