Digital BW, The Print

I recently posted an article about using an iPaq Pocket PC with
removable PCMCIA hard drives to store pictures while on
vacation/camping/hiking:

	http://www.glasslantern.com/articles/PocketPCstorage/index.htm

I ended up writing a custom program to do the transfers - you can get a
beta of it from the site if you're interested. For long term storage, I
archive raw NEF files to 2 CDs as well as keeping them on my hard drive.
One of the CDs gets mailed offsite in case my apartment burns down. I'll
move to DVD storage once the format wars are over.

later,
-jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Frost [mailto:bobfrost@...] 
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 11:33 AM
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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