querstrommotor Posted August 22, 2008 Share #1 Posted August 22, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Dear forum members, as you shoot digital (or even analogue and afterwards you scan the negatives), you will recognize after a couple of months that storrage is something you have to think about. It is not a problem to buy several large harddiscs and connect the stuff via firewire or usb 2.0 to your computer or labtop. But if you want to have a real good workflow with the possibility to watch the photos together with your friends or your family on your tv set, to handle them via mail, to work on them with your software, to backup the material and so on.... let me share an idea with you: Last year I decidet to throw every multimedia stuff out of the living room and replaced it with a small mini-mac. This mini-mac is connected via HDMI with a large HD display (Samsung 52") and the digital audio stream via a SPDIF optical cable to a very high end DA-converter (the mac internal DA converter does not sound too good...), the DA is connected with a high end amp and the amp with the speakers... So you have the possibility to use all the stuff a mini -mac offers you - you can listen to CD, to mp3, watching a DVD, watching your photos via aperture or i-photo, receiving mails, surfing internet.... My girlfriend and I, we both use laptops, and I do also my complete postproduction on the labtop. The problem was now - how to distribute the data everywhere without having trouble with powersupplies and connection cables? The solution is the Time Capsule (or similar piece of gear). We bought a TC with a tb of storrage and a USB-hub. So we have the chance to watch the pictures on the TV Set, while we are also able to handle the data via our laptops. Aperture is able to handle data via network and it is pretty fast via Airport extreme.And the hub is connected with the printer and the scanner. The advantage is that you can work on your material from nearly everywhere in the flat. And you will "miss" the whole cabelind shit;-)))) What you will recognize is a little bit lack of speed in comparison to a fast hrddisc, but it is not such a big difference, that you might prefer to come back to a non network solution. Maybe something to think of????? Ekki Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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srivastava Posted August 23, 2008 Share #2 Posted August 23, 2008 sounds great. My MacBook is full and I do back up to an iomega network drive but the option of mac and tv sounds cool. How much did the whole thing cost you? Rajat Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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