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01/24/2006 11:04:09 AM · #1 |
I (finally) have gotten to doing some backups of files on my HD. This is what i found...I have my files organized by year/month or year/event
Year Total Mb/Gb of files Camera
2001 10mb Fuji 1400 1mp
2002 16Mb Fuji 1400 1mp
2003 1.04Gb Fuji 1400 1mp
2004 1.06Gb Fuji S602 3Mp
2005 28Gb Canon 300D 6Mp (and raw)
I got my Rebel on Jan 4, 2005. Is it RAW? Is it 6MP? Is it I am more serious this past year?
1/2 of the 28Gb is for-profit pics, but that still leaves fun shooting at 14Gb!
SO far in 2006 (3 seeks in....) 1.5Gb.
And I hope to get a Canon 50D (or 30, 35 what have you rumoured to be a 10mp camera) in the second half of the year.
Any guesses as to the data I'll accumulate in 06? 50gb? 75Gb?
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01/24/2006 11:10:03 AM · #2 |
I am seeing the same kind of thing myself...
One of these days, I keep promising myself, I will sit down and start tossing away all of the garbage and 100% no longer relevent photos. (Such as Photos for work that will never be needed again.)
Then moving onto to failed shots that just didn't turn out for any number of reasons, wrong camera settings, model(s) blinked or made an unintentional 'ugly' face that is far from flattering.
Only thing is, I can't seem to get myself to sit down long enough to do it... |
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01/24/2006 11:10:41 AM · #3 |
time to start making sure you have a good system of backups.
Whew!
I took more pictures with my S2 in the first 2 months than the entire time I owned my S30 - nearly 2 years.
I actually really hope that I will increase that when I get my DSLR. |
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01/24/2006 11:13:47 AM · #4 |
I dream about my dSLR... I'm thinking of leaving my wife for it.
;-)
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01/24/2006 11:18:11 AM · #5 |
my husband tells my fiends I sleep with mine!
my friends thinks it's funny but you can make your own assumptions weather it's true or not... ;0) |
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01/24/2006 11:24:22 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by oOWonderBreadOo:
my husband tells my fiends I sleep with mine!
my friends thinks it's funny but you can make your own assumptions weather it's true or not... ;0) |
Am I gay for admiring the long lense? (place the "not that there's anything wrong with being gay" disclaimer here)
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01/24/2006 11:30:59 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Originally posted by oOWonderBreadOo:
my husband tells my fiends I sleep with mine!
my friends thinks it's funny but you can make your own assumptions weather it's true or not... ;0) |
Am I gay for admiring the long lense? (place the "not that there's anything wrong with being gay" disclaimer here) |
I think it depends on what you do with the lens...and whether your lens is a boy or a girl.
Message edited by author 2006-01-24 11:32:16. |
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01/24/2006 11:31:17 AM · #8 |
I havn't counted each year separetly, but I'm up to 100.000 images and close to 100GB ;)
Message edited by author 2006-01-24 11:31:32. |
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01/24/2006 11:35:22 AM · #9 |
Sometime I think the camera makers are in cohoots with the storage people.
I went for a pair of what at the time were BIG drives and now I am down to 10 & 15Gb free on both of the 160's. I have stolen another 50Gb from another PC on my network. I just ordered an external 250Gb but this is getting out of hand.
While only about 100Gb of this space is directly from the 20D (try scanning slides at full tilt - 110Mb each) but I have owned it less than a year :-0) Even at 100Gb/year that is a LOT of storage - I cannot even fanthom upgrading to a 5D..... |
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01/24/2006 11:53:17 AM · #10 |
I just recently burned all my old photos to DVD..
7 and a half DVDs..
insanity. |
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01/24/2006 11:58:14 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Originally posted by oOWonderBreadOo:
my husband tells my fiends I sleep with mine!
my friends thinks it's funny but you can make your own assumptions weather it's true or not... ;0) |
Am I gay for admiring the long lense? (place the "not that there's anything wrong with being gay" disclaimer here) |
Oh my- you do have a long lens!! :0P |
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01/24/2006 02:05:25 PM · #12 |
I just bought a 1Tb RAID server.
If you don't like using disk space, don't buy a camera that shoots 8.5fps 8Mp images - that's my advice :(
It was bad enough with a 6Mp D60
Message edited by author 2006-01-24 14:05:43. |
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01/24/2006 02:19:19 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
I just bought a 1Tb RAID server. |
Might be on my list real soon [the extra 250Gb I ordered is only a temp solution] :-) For bad or worse, I prefer to have more detail then less, so bigger (RAW in my case) files are just the way it is.
Besides, I am limited to 5-ish frames per second, so there is some forced savings in place :-)
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01/24/2006 03:13:48 PM · #14 |
| They're making 1.6TB and 2TB NAS drives now out of four 500MB hard drives that aren't terribly expensive. Just buy a few of these :-) |
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01/24/2006 03:16:38 PM · #15 |
probably cause you waste so much space shooting RAW ;-)
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01/24/2006 03:31:39 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by dpaull:
probably cause you waste so much space shooting RAW ;-) |
For me it isn't the RAW files, it's the 200Mb+ PSD files that eats up the space pretty quickly. |
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01/24/2006 03:35:35 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by dpaull:
probably cause you waste so much space shooting RAW ;-) |
For me it isn't the RAW files, it's the 200Mb+ PSD files that eats up the space pretty quickly. |
You save those?
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01/24/2006 03:39:09 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
I (finally) have gotten to doing some backups of files on my HD. This is what i found...I have my files organized by year/month or year/event
Year Total Mb/Gb of files Camera
2001 10mb Fuji 1400 1mp
2002 16Mb Fuji 1400 1mp
2003 1.04Gb Fuji 1400 1mp
2004 1.06Gb Fuji S602 3Mp
2005 28Gb Canon 300D 6Mp (and raw)
I got my Rebel on Jan 4, 2005. Is it RAW? Is it 6MP? Is it I am more serious this past year?
1/2 of the 28Gb is for-profit pics, but that still leaves fun shooting at 14Gb!
SO far in 2006 (3 seeks in....) 1.5Gb.
And I hope to get a Canon 50D (or 30, 35 what have you rumoured to be a 10mp camera) in the second half of the year.
Any guesses as to the data I'll accumulate in 06? 50gb? 75Gb? |
Prof, you have followed exactly the same upgrade path that I have, the Fuji 1400, then the S602z (fantastic camera that one) and then the 300D, and I am just waiting for the new one to hit the shops (have been saving the money up for months) and I will be buying that, probably on release day!
Message edited by author 2006-01-24 15:39:30. |
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01/24/2006 03:52:41 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by dpaull:
probably cause you waste so much space shooting RAW ;-) |
True but since I cannot get quality nailed, I need to make up in quantity and wiggle room with the RAW over JPG [besides the RAW slows down the 5fps so reduces my storage needs] :-))
Seriously: I have it on my list to investigate some image management s/ware - so I could keep some on the hard drive and archive most to DVD. It would need to include long-term archive type stuff to create sets of DVD's for longer-term storage (from the mixed drive/dvd current storage) and would have a online catalogue that I could find and reload anything that was archived. |
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01/24/2006 03:53:42 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by dpaull:
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by dpaull:
probably cause you waste so much space shooting RAW ;-) |
For me it isn't the RAW files, it's the 200Mb+ PSD files that eats up the space pretty quickly. |
You save those? |
I save all of mine. even the 2gb + ones. ;o)
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01/24/2006 04:13:21 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
I got my Rebel on Jan 4, 2005. Is it RAW? Is it 6MP? Is it I am more serious this past year? |
It might be the Shots per second rate compared to the last camera. I know that's why I have 4 harddrives connected to the computer now :(
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01/24/2006 04:27:42 PM · #22 |
| Oh yes, I know exactly what you are talking about... I am currently keeping about 400 gb worth of .raw files and frankly I almost (BIG emphasis on ALMOST) wish that the 5D files were smaller, just for storage purpouses... Fortunately external HD drives are getting cheaper by the day :D |
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01/24/2006 04:31:41 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by Brent_Ward:
Originally posted by dpaull:
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by dpaull:
probably cause you waste so much space shooting RAW ;-) |
For me it isn't the RAW files, it's the 200Mb+ PSD files that eats up the space pretty quickly. |
You save those? |
I save all of mine. even the 2gb + ones. ;o) |
Wow...I usually only save an edited resize...then I go back a while later and I don't feel like editing it again so I just don't...maybe I should start.
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01/24/2006 04:48:21 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by dpaull:
Originally posted by Brent_Ward:
Originally posted by dpaull:
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by dpaull:
probably cause you waste so much space shooting RAW ;-) |
For me it isn't the RAW files, it's the 200Mb+ PSD files that eats up the space pretty quickly. |
You save those? |
I save all of mine. even the 2gb + ones. ;o) |
Wow...I usually only save an edited resize...then I go back a while later and I don't feel like editing it again so I just don't...maybe I should start. |
I used to do that. Then people wanted to buy several (~40) print ready versions of images that I'd previously edited. I didn't have time to re-edit/ finish them. Only had web sized versions. I missed out on getting the images used and the associated money. I had thought that I'd always just be able to re-edit and go, but when it comes to a lot of images, that's a lot of time even for trivial edits/ noise/dust spotting & colour adjustments. For some of the more complex images, the PSD is about 2Gb, with 20+ layers.
I don't save the final versions. I keep the original captures and the finalised PSD (with layers, before sharpening)
Then if someone wants to buy a copy, I can size/ convert colour profile and sharpen for the target output process with a batch file and be ready to go.
Essentially I've lost quite a bit of money by not keeping the layered PSDs, so I tried to learn from that mistake.
Message edited by author 2006-01-24 16:52:52. |
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01/24/2006 04:52:14 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by dpaull:
Originally posted by Brent_Ward:
Originally posted by dpaull:
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by dpaull:
probably cause you waste so much space shooting RAW ;-) |
For me it isn't the RAW files, it's the 200Mb+ PSD files that eats up the space pretty quickly. |
You save those? |
I save all of mine. even the 2gb + ones. ;o) |
Wow...I usually only save an edited resize...then I go back a while later and I don't feel like editing it again so I just don't...maybe I should start. |
I used to do that. Then people wanted to buy several (~40) print ready versions of images that I'd previously edited. I didn't have time to re-edit/ finish them. I missed out on getting the images used and the associated money.
I don't save the final versions. I keep the original captures and the finalised PSD (with layers, before sharpening)
Then if someone wants to buy a copy, I can size/ convert colour profile and sharpen for the target output process with a batch file and be ready to go.
Essentially I've lost quite a bit of money by not keeping the layered PSDs, so I tried to learn from that mistake. |
...and you never know what new technology will allow you to do to your photos in the future. That's why shoot in raw. I can reprocess old raw shots and have them look much better than I could of a couple of years ago.
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