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Wolfgang Wuster
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Posted: 20 Aug 2005 at 11:49am |
This new forum is an excellent idea, Gemma, I have already learned a lot.
In the previous very enlightening thread, Lee and others have convinced me of the wisdom of shooting RAW rather than JPEG, as I have done until now. Next question: does anyone have any recommendations for storing the vast number of enormous RAW image files that accumulate during longer field trips (I am off to Papua New Guinea in a few weeks, so this is of immediate applied interest )? With 2GB and 4GB Compact Flash Cards going into three figure prices, I am looking at buying one of the various Multimedia portable storage devices. Any recommendations? Presumably most of these portable digital media storage devices then don't actually allow you to view the RAW image, correct? Cheers, Wolfgang (in case it's relevant, I use an EOS 300D) Edited by Wolfgang Wuster |
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Jeroen
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Vosonic Xs Drive IIPlus 40GB, 149 euro at Viewing not possible at that price... Edited by Jeroen |
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There are drives that let you view RAW from the 300D, but your looking at ú400 .. Jobo Giga Vu Pro 40GB Hard Drive
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Alan Hyde
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Agree with Wolfgang , excellent idea this forum. I too have learnt alot from Lee's Raw posts.
My Friend Frank was always saying to me ,"Alan, you must shoot in Raw " , and now the reasons why have been clearly explained by Lee , thanks mate |
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I'm prob not really the best person to answer this as I don't use a image storage device. If I don't have enough CF cards for the job I'll take a laptop with me and use that.
As a rule, storage devices WITH screens (most will allow you to review RAW files too) cost around ú50 more than their screenless counterparts. There was a review of some recently in EOS magazine, I'll dig it out later and let you know what it said. That aside, the other problem is archiving so many images. Recently, we're just buying LaCie 250Gb external hard drives off ebuyer.com for just under ú100 a pop. That's 40p per Gb (I remember when hard disks cost more than that per Mb!), which we reckon is cracking value to have an archive that's so quick and easy to access. We then keep secondary backups on DVD. These are just a failsafe in case of HD failure. I only archive RAW files unless it's an image I've spent ages playing with in Photoshop, in which case I'll save the PSD. Raw files DO need re-converting though for further use. On the up-side, they're only about a third the size of a 16bit Tiff so are very space efficient. Lee. |
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