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Sigma 15mm f/2.8 EX Diagonal Fisheye for Nikon

01/03/2006 07:53:09 PM · #1

honestly...who keeps the original file of EVERY pic shot throughout the year?

i have some i really like, but i don't have the original, so i guess i'll have to submit something more lousy.....arrgh

muckpond

Nikon D200

01/03/2006 07:55:17 PM · #2

us nerds do. at least we keep the originals of photos we liked... :P ;)

sabphoto

Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+

01/03/2006 07:55:45 PM · #3

I think you'd be surprised by the number of people that keep every image. With the ability to fix and alter images now a days I have a hard time deleting anything. I know RAW takes up room but I still will keep those over edited ones.

01/03/2006 07:55:50 PM · #4

i guess i'm going to have to be more nerdy...and buy more storage.... ;)

moodville

Nikon D100

01/03/2006 08:00:16 PM · #5

If an image is good enough to be considered your best of 2005 I would think you would want to keep the original of it. I dont keep originals of all my images but I keep the ones that I think are good enough to warrant it.

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/03/2006 08:03:29 PM · #6

i just found some of my originals on a cd that i burned in oct.!
whoo hoo! saved by a backup...

they're not all there, but this is definately a lesson learned!
:)

Makka

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

01/03/2006 08:04:50 PM · #7

I know where you're coming from. My choice I can't enter because I can't find the original RAW file, even though I swear I still had it! :(

Panasonic DMW-LTZ10 1.5x Teleconverter

01/03/2006 08:12:06 PM · #8

yeah, i ended up having to cross my top 3 pics out b/c i couldnt find them...oh well.

thanks for comiserating ;)

KiwiShotz

Panasonic DMC-FZ20

01/03/2006 08:13:42 PM · #9

Originally posted by gurlwithapen:

honestly...who keeps the original file of EVERY pic shot throughout the year?

We do (I know I know). I like to have a complete numerical sequence of everything I've shot to remind me of the failures as well as the better ones.

I must confess it does fill up the DVD's quickly with 15.5mB per image (2,150 of them since getting the camera 29 July 05). I must, I must remember to trash the TIFFs of the really crappy ones.

Brett

idnic

Canon EOS-60D

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

01/03/2006 08:25:14 PM · #10

I back up all files. Even out of focus ugly ones. All get saved to external HD in folders with date and subject

yakatme

Lytro Illum Light Field Digital

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED

01/03/2006 08:28:54 PM · #11

I'm being urged by my computer whiz brother to buy an external hard drive. I keep all of my original files and am up to 125 gigabytes of images. He says that I could program my computer to automatically download new files nightly to the external hard drive and in the event of a computer crash I would have everything backed up. In the need for quick evacuation due to fire etc. it could be quickly disconnected and taken with me (after my son of course) haha.

dwterry

Canon EOS-1D Mark III

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/03/2006 08:36:39 PM · #12

I have an internal 300G hard drive and an external 300G to back it up.

Guess what? They're full. ARGH!

I'm having to archive off pictures because I just can't keep up. I shoot a family gathering, there goes a gig of file space (RAW files, JPGs, PSDs). I do a family portrait series, there goes another gig. Every little wedding chews up another 3-4G just in RAW files alone. I can't keep up. I hate archiving files because I know it'll become impossible to find anything over time. But I can't afford to keep buying bigger hard drives all the time...

So I'm a nerd. AND a packrat. I've know that for a long time! :-)

digitalpins

Canon EOS-60D

Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

01/03/2006 08:52:52 PM · #13

i keep my originals, if I am going to edit any image i always do a "save as" or if not its already backed up on my iPod or dvd's/extrenal hard drive. I just keep backups of everything.

taterbug

Nikon D300

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

01/03/2006 09:02:35 PM · #14

Yep, I save 'em :-)
Got a small hd, but a BIG stack of cd's :-P

...never know when you might want to re-visit an original, like, maybe a best of 05 challenge or something ;-P
or other reasons :-)

_eug

Nikon D50

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

01/03/2006 10:21:39 PM · #15

Originally posted by dwterry:

Create an archive folder on your harddrive with 1/2 sized jpgs. Write the folder name on a DVD and burn the RAW, TIFF, PSD files on it. BreezeBrowser lets you easily create Proofs to any size. I imagine other Image Management software can do this too.

All your working and final files still have the original filename in them somewhere, right?

Brenb

Canon EOS-60D

01/03/2006 10:33:01 PM · #16

I burn all my originals on DVD. If it's a client job or one I have shot for a challenge, I do this immediately after uploading. It's good to save as many as you can that are worth keeping. I know I have gone back to some after a couple of years and much more editing experience and found I had some that were much better than I originally thought.

Faye Pekas

Canon EOS-20D

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

01/03/2006 10:43:36 PM · #17

I'm a nerd too. I save originals of everything. I store them on an external hard drive and burn to DVD's

Skip

Canon EOS-1D X

Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM

01/03/2006 11:03:30 PM · #18

i shoot over 100,000 images a year and have every single keeper on dvd, cd, and 2 external harddrives, as well as all the ps files, and all the final results files. why? because that original file is my negative, and memory is too cheap to justify throwing things away.

it really makes me shake my head when i hear the excuses people give for not keeping originals. it's like they either don't get it, or they don't care...

barndog

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/03/2006 11:11:23 PM · #19

I keep every one also. I save the raws, delete the tifs after making psd's.

Dvd's are cheap, external storage has gotten huge. And who knows, maybe one day there will be a DPC best of the worst picture you ever took!

ellamay

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

01/03/2006 11:38:59 PM · #20

I save the raws 2x and the edited tiffs about 3-4 in different ways and places...

does that make me paranoid?

BaldurT

Sony Alpha a7R III

Sony SAL-70200G 70-200 2.8 SSM G

01/03/2006 11:51:46 PM · #21

I just recently had to go through my 130gig hard drive (cause it was full) and I went through every folder of stuff that I had shot since I got my 20D (about a year now) and erased every shot I knew I would never use, which was about 70-80%. It was very liberating admitting to my self that the out-of-focus under or over exposed badly composed image was never going to be anything but trash..... Really, it felt good. Then I backed the rest up on DVD's and an external HD. :-)

Tamron 70-180mm F/2.8 Di III VXD

01/03/2006 11:55:18 PM · #22

i have been backing up ever since my first post...burning cds...slow, but its all i've got...don't want this to happen ever again.

and you're right..i might want to go back and re-edit at a later date.

MadMan2k

Sony Alpha a6400

01/04/2006 12:34:57 AM · #23

I kept the originals for almost every photo I took in 2005.. only about 15gb though. I was slacking until I bought this camera in november, that's 3/4ths of the images at least.

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