Digital BW, The Print

When I travel with my D1x I almost always take a laptop with me.  This is a
pain particularly for exotic or rugged locals...but it does allow me to get
feed back on the images while I'm shooting.  Another option that many
photojournalists use while in the field is a Digital Wallet.  I have one
with a 6gb HD.  These have operating systems to download files from the
microdrive or compact flash and then allow transfer to your main harddrive
via USB.  Its pretty small and light.  I have one friend that regularly
shoots remotely and he simply clips it to his belt during a days shoots and
swaps cards periodically.

All of this is a digital mixed blessing.  For time limited jobs its great.
I flew to Chicago about 4 months ago for a weekend shoot in which I had to
turn images around that weekend for a magazine.  I easily handled the job on
my color calibrated iBook and made the deadline.  This would have been
almost impossible if I was shooting film...with a remote city and weekend
hours at photolabs.

In contrast, its next to impossible to take a digital camera on a
backpacking trip...where you may go a week without power...for this I still
use film.  Likewise if you are trying to travel light...film is frequently
better...or maybe go with the Digital Wallet...provided you will have
regular power to charge camera and Digital Wallet batteries.  I take a small
powerstrip with me in case of limited outlets.

Incidentally, my .NEF files from the D1x are only about 7.7mb...so I think
you are overestimating your storage needs.  The files blow up to 60mb when
you decompress them in photoshop and save as 16bit TIFF...but they are much
smaller in NEF format.

Robert

On 7/27/02 11:25 AM, "Jeff Blum"

> -----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.
> 
> 
> <snip>
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