Digital BW, The Print

Bob;

Just to jump in here, you probably want a portable storage device such as
MindStor http://www.mindsat.com/ or something similar.

Wendel

> From: "Bob Frost" <bobfrost@...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 16:33:08 +0100
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Storage of digital images
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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