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05/13/2009 12:21:06 AM · #1 |
Well this is about how you keep your original for DPC. Until yet I was leaving the image in CF card by protecting until contest ends (some of my favorite shots taken before 1 year are still in the stick). I upload the images in PC by using lightroom. But it will be difficult for me to choose a photograph for any other big contest like yearly on DPC.
Can you share with me your method of keeping the originals for DPC without sparing much more space on the hard drive? |
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05/13/2009 12:23:21 AM · #2 |
Originally posted by bnilesh:
Well this is about how you keep your original for DPC. Until yet I was leaving the image in CF card by protecting until contest ends (some of my favorite shots taken before 1 year are still in the stick). I upload the images in PC by using lightroom. But it will be difficult for me to choose a photograph for any other big contest like yearly on DPC.
Can you share with me your method of keeping the originals for DPC without sparing much more space on the hard drive? |
Get yourself an external hard drive, and copy your images from your card using a card reader and direct file transfer (instead of with a program like Lightroom.)
If you're using lightroom, you should check with SC that that program's file transfer doesn't mess with your exif like many do, or you could be in for some upsetting DQs |
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05/13/2009 12:24:08 AM · #3 |
I download my camera using Canon software. I then format my card and erase all the other photos. About once a month I back up my photos from the internal hard drive to two external hard drives and then erase the originals off the internal. Been doing this for three or four years now. External hard drives are dirt cheap buy yourself a couple and back them up.
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05/13/2009 12:45:02 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by MattO:
I download my camera using Canon software. |
We recommend against that for the purpose of preserving an "original" for DPC -- if that software tags the image in any way it is not an "original" for our purposes.
Using a card reader and dragging the files to the hard drive using your computer's operating system is the only "officially approved" method.
Personally, I copy the files to my hard drive, but I leave them on the camera card until after I've burned them to CD (or DVD), so that there are always two copies of the files extant, on different media. |
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05/13/2009 02:08:23 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by MattO:
I download my camera using Canon software. |
We recommend against that for the purpose of preserving an "original" for DPC -- if that software tags the image in any way it is not an "original" for our purposes.
Using a card reader and dragging the files to the hard drive using your computer's operating system is the only "officially approved" method.
Personally, I copy the files to my hard drive, but I leave them on the camera card until after I've burned them to CD (or DVD), so that there are always two copies of the files extant, on different media. |
That means I have to make a backup of an image without info which I can insert by using Lightroom import. Doesn't it is too much asking for DPC original? I agree it's very important for validation but there should be some way out so that it is easy for user for backing up the image with some metadata presets. I will like to take backup of my RAW images with lightroom settings. |
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05/13/2009 02:22:59 AM · #6 |
So far I've been working on the assumption that any raw file will accepted as a valid original. As far as I know nothing can edit the image data in a raw file, although there are software packages that can edit the meta data.
Perhaps the SC can clarify: Is a raw file a valid original, even if there has been some additions to the meta data (such as tags, GPS data, etc.)? |
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