AMc
Distinguished Member
I recently decided to save JPEG+RAW.
I haven't yet seen a massive change in what I can achieve with the RAW output from my Olympus cameras vs what I could do before using JPG; I'm putting that down to lack of familiarity with Olympus Viewer 3 compared to GIMP which I know well.
I've avoided using RAW until now because of the extra data storage involved. Basically filling cards quicker and ending up with gigs of files on my hard drives that I'll probably never touch again.
Cards are cheap so I'm OK with that.
I've until now been using manual copies of everything on multiple machines to backup. My main machine, my laptop and the PC for the TV in the living room (which also displays all the images as a screensaver) + the occasional back up on an external drive.
This was fine with JPG but the data volume of RAW and the fact that they can't be seen on the TV means it doesn't make sense any more.
So in addition to more memory cards I need to add a different backup/archive strategy.
As I don't currently have a RAW workflow I'm curious as to what everyone else does with unprocessed RAW files - keep them forever, keep some of them or delete them after editing.
I'll probably end up keeping everything and buying terrabytes of data storage as I have a minor hording tendancy but perhaps you can suggest a better way?
Thoughts and opinions are welcome - I know about NAS solutions and RAID etc but I'm sure your thoughts would help others. The only thing that is really off limits to me is cloud storage, I get 300kbps upload so I will be here until the end of time backing up my JPG catalogue, let alone adding in RAW at several times the size
I haven't yet seen a massive change in what I can achieve with the RAW output from my Olympus cameras vs what I could do before using JPG; I'm putting that down to lack of familiarity with Olympus Viewer 3 compared to GIMP which I know well.
I've avoided using RAW until now because of the extra data storage involved. Basically filling cards quicker and ending up with gigs of files on my hard drives that I'll probably never touch again.
Cards are cheap so I'm OK with that.
I've until now been using manual copies of everything on multiple machines to backup. My main machine, my laptop and the PC for the TV in the living room (which also displays all the images as a screensaver) + the occasional back up on an external drive.
This was fine with JPG but the data volume of RAW and the fact that they can't be seen on the TV means it doesn't make sense any more.
So in addition to more memory cards I need to add a different backup/archive strategy.
As I don't currently have a RAW workflow I'm curious as to what everyone else does with unprocessed RAW files - keep them forever, keep some of them or delete them after editing.
I'll probably end up keeping everything and buying terrabytes of data storage as I have a minor hording tendancy but perhaps you can suggest a better way?
Thoughts and opinions are welcome - I know about NAS solutions and RAID etc but I'm sure your thoughts would help others. The only thing that is really off limits to me is cloud storage, I get 300kbps upload so I will be here until the end of time backing up my JPG catalogue, let alone adding in RAW at several times the size
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