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,

> 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.
> 

If I can add a thought:

If I shot 500 images on a holiday, I would probably cull out most of them,
and would be very pleased if I had more than a dozen that should be stored
at hi res. And maybe there might be another couple dozen of personal/family
images that I would keep, and those might be 18 megs or less each.
 
It's so much easier to edit out digital images than film images. This is
something that doesn't seem to get much consideration when people are
comparing digital with film.

2 cents.

Jim