So much for photo-a-day…
2007 April 20
Pentax K10D – DA 18-55
Well, so much for posting a new photo every day… Heres a shot of Vancouver from western Kits beach, converted from DNG. I have to say a word about RAW here… if you aren’t shooting RAW yet, especially if you own a K10D… wake up! It took me a few months to finally realize the benefits, but now that I have I’m not going back.
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Nice pic.
When I eventually get a DSLR (was actually looking at a bunch in the store this afternoon) I will consider shooting with RAW.
But how on earth do you handle those crazy file sizes? I’ve got a 120GB external hard drive fitted in a case to plug in memory cards and offload directly, 1GB/minute, but 120GB limits how many RAW files you can keep…
My DNG files are 16mb. Ive stopped shooting jpegs with the RAW to save file space, and I’m also alot more critical now with the photos I keep, both after the shot and once they’re on the computer. I mean, honestly… I don’t need alot of the photos I take anyway, so why keep them around wasting space?
As for storage, I have two 2gb SD cards (about 110 photos each) and 2 320gb external SATA drives, one of which is a backup. It’s not an ideal setup, but my current computer limits my options.
A 320gb seagate with an eSATA enclosure costs me about 150 bucks, or $.50 a gb. Believe me, RAW is so much better, that the extra cost of storage is worth it. There is just so much more colour, dynamic range, detail, etc to work with…