Shooting in DNG and how people deal with storage

[appleman]

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On 2/4/2024 at 9:59 PM, jaapv said:

Try opening cloud raws on your phone over 4G or slower…Life is too short. The cost has nothing to do with it. 

I only use iCloud with Photoshop, I download the raw files and then process, no problem. On my Mac I must add, not iPhone,

[jaapv]

Yes, but how did they get into the cloud? 

[appleman]

1 hour ago, jaapv said:

Yes, but how did they get into the cloud? 

lols. You can use Apple or BT and there are other providers.

[jaapv]

In the middle of Africa, for instance.

People do travel outside the UK... Uploading over 4K and slower is a real pain... Which was the point of my post.

[jaapv]

Anyway, with 5TB of photos the Cloud would be an expensive storage option. 

[Alberti]

here I have two examples of using an external SD card reader, that is part of a hub, and fits into the USB-C slot of the macbookair. Purpose: to store SD files while on holidays.

I did a test.

Somewhere in the workflow. It corrupts the file. File storage on SATA SSD and formatted as APFS. I re-formatted the SSD as  ex-FAT. Same result.

Any suggestions? [Of course, I can now run to my art dealer. I found an original artwork in my PC...]

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First, now a striped window design: I copied DNG's from my computer on the SSD; then back. The second one now with the broad brush stroke: I inserted an SD card in the slot and imported that.

30 minutes later:

I redid the test, threw out the hub; now with a simple sd-reader on a USB-2; slow, but this time it all came along flawlessly. It must be the controller of the hub.

If there is a real artist who is interested in the hub . . .

 

 

 

 

Edited September 9, 2024 by Alberti

[LocalHero1953]

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You should post these images here. I especially like the first one.

Edited September 9, 2024 by LocalHero1953

[Alberti]

My wife gave me her Hagebis Mini-dock. Works like a charm. And is light enough to go in the hand-baggage. [But is bulky with its Mini form factor]

[BWColor]

Old thread, but worth responding.

1.  Refrain from depressing the shutter.  Know your camera, metering and light .  Apply some discipline at capture.

2.  Fast computer with lots of ram and good size SSD for initial processing.

3.  Delete many, if not most images and only keep the best of the best.

4.  Long term storage on a NAS raid server that is able to lose two drives and keep data secure.  Back that server up to a second similar server and all on a protected electrical circuit with battery backup.  If Mac, also keep a high quality TimeMachine whole computer backup.  Monitor the health of the servers.

5. Rotating backups to fireproof safe.

5.  Cloud backup for select images.

6.  Regular printed albums for protection from digital neglect, EMP and alien invasion.

This is my solution, but it ultimately falls apart upon my death, which makes the printed albums the most important part of this approach.

I should mention that the primary goal of the NAS servers was to store business data, but data is data.

Edited September 13, 2024 by BWColor
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[Viv]

On 6/14/2023 at 6:29 AM, Alberti said:

I from principle do not use a cloud service for photo's. 

I should have a look on that LrSynch folder - I'm not sure I have that without the cloud attached. 

External storage is cheap.

I use a twin-drive RAID setup for photos.

[P1505]

Shoot, transfer via SD to 16tb external drive. Immediately backup to second 16tb drive. Backblaze runs to store in cloud.

All of this is automated using Freefilesync on Mac.

Wait, sometimes years, then print the best using pigment ink, archival paper, and store in archive boxes with acid free tissue. Self publish a magazine or book when necessary. All keepers are saved as web sensible JPEG and print sensible TIFF. All RAW files are kept.

Do not hope for the recipes to work in future, you’re introducing a whole bunch of shearing layers there. The Lightroom catalogue must use Lightroom which must remain consistent in its recipe format etc. If you like the image, export the edits baked in.

Wife is a digital archivist, she deals with this stuff all day.