I recently bought a Kodak DC120 Zoom. The camera contained a 10 MB compact flash card. Yes, 10 megabytes. The camera stored the files in a .kdc format. Apparently, this format was older than a newer version of Kodak Easy Share format so I didn’t have any programs that would read the files. I did find an online site that will convert the files to a modern format.
This all leads me to wonder, how long in the future will our digital files no longer be supported? The jpg format has been around since 1992 and is still a standard file format, although more and more often we are told to use the png file format due to its lossless compression. It’s interesting to consider, at least to me. Will anyone even want our digital files far into the future?
One solution would be to make prints, but if you’re like me I have boxes of old prints and negatives that I rarely, and I mean rarely get into. Will all our work be lost? For me, it is something to think about.
Photographer Clay 
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