[GH85Carrera]

Yea, I have my dad's dogtag. It looks brand new. He carried it as a key chain for as long as I can remember.

The real tragedy of digital photography is how transient they are. I have heard that there have been more photos taken with just iPhones than all the film Kodak ever sold. I don't have any idea how they can determine that but it sounds reasonable.

How many people can put their hands on the original digital photo they shot just 5 years ago?

We have negatives here at work that date back to the 30s and 40s. Tons of stuff from the 60s to 2015 on film. Some is cataloged better than others. Just yesterday I dug out the negatives our company took of Ada, OK in 1958. It only took me a minute to put my hands on them. They are not available anywhere else on the planet.

Once they are digitized the negs go back in the file cabinet and the digital scans get stored on one of the RAIDs. In a few years I will be able to find those negatives faster than the scans that are just a few among many terabytes of files.

Most people don't have a RAID to store their digital photos long term. Burning a DVDs only last a few years. Really. We have DVDs and CDs we burned just 5 or 6 years ago that are unreadable.