kc2aqg
2008-02-23, 03:50 PM
Hey All-
I seem to be having somewhat of a predicament now that I have gone DSLR. When I shoot in Raw + JPEG, I can fill an 8 GB card in half a day's worth of shooting. Going out a few times, you do the math, that's a lot of hard drive space. My question for all of you is how and with what do you store your digital photo files? Do you keep all of the files that you shoot or only the ones you use? What mode do you shoot in, Raw, JPEG, or both? Would you keep the raw files of pictures that you probably wouldn't use?
Historically I've kept everything I've shot, but if I plan on continuing that trend, I'll have to make a major investment in hard drives. Also, for those of you that know me, you know that I'm an IT geek and have a ridiculous hard drive redundancy setup in order to avoid losing data due to hard drive crashes, software glitches, etc. This definitely complicates my plans on how I want to store the new photo files. So I definitely am looking for as much input as possible in order to figure out how I should proceed with this. If it helps, my JPEGs are about 3Mb per pic and the Raw files are 10-11 Mb per pic. Thanks!
I seem to be having somewhat of a predicament now that I have gone DSLR. When I shoot in Raw + JPEG, I can fill an 8 GB card in half a day's worth of shooting. Going out a few times, you do the math, that's a lot of hard drive space. My question for all of you is how and with what do you store your digital photo files? Do you keep all of the files that you shoot or only the ones you use? What mode do you shoot in, Raw, JPEG, or both? Would you keep the raw files of pictures that you probably wouldn't use?
Historically I've kept everything I've shot, but if I plan on continuing that trend, I'll have to make a major investment in hard drives. Also, for those of you that know me, you know that I'm an IT geek and have a ridiculous hard drive redundancy setup in order to avoid losing data due to hard drive crashes, software glitches, etc. This definitely complicates my plans on how I want to store the new photo files. So I definitely am looking for as much input as possible in order to figure out how I should proceed with this. If it helps, my JPEGs are about 3Mb per pic and the Raw files are 10-11 Mb per pic. Thanks!