Digital BW, The Print

Jerry,

I'm considering the new Fuji S2 for a move into digicams. I know most of the
advantages and disadvantages versus film, but something no-one seems to
mention is storage of the image files. If you're going to get the max out of
the camera, you're going to save a 12 million pixel image in raw format or
largest tiff, at about 50 MB per image. On my last holiday I took about
13/14 films (36 each) so that would be getting on for 500 images at 50MB per
image = 25GB!! So I would have to buy a portable computer or hard-drive to
store them on while I'm away, and then instead of putting them all in my
filing cabinet until I want to scan an image, I've got to keep them all on a
computer, until I might want them one day. Copying just that batch of images
to CD is going to use about 40 CD's and take hours. Using DVD-R will
probably take just as long; fewer disks but costing far more.

How are you and others coping with this storage problem that is only going
to get worse as camera resolutions increase, unless better lossless
compression systems appear?

Bob Frost.