Digital BW, The Print

Martin,
These monster files are very intimidating to me as I start to reckon 
up storage needs for a new system. Carol Steele, familiar to many as
a PShop guru, and active on the Adobe forums, was jubilant last week 
as she began assembling a system with two new 60G drives plus her old 
20G. She also will include a DVD writer, with its 4G platters.
Judging from your experiences, she won't need a new system for at 
least a couple of weeks. But she's a pro, and as I remember, you
don't draw an income from your photography, as is the case with many 
of us on the list. I suppose amateurs have a certain advantage in
that they can simply throw away files rather than archiving them after
printing; however, digital photography promises a flood of new 
visualizations. The problem of storing even a fraction of them is 
enough to make your head swim. How do you handle it now, and can you 
comment on yourplans over time?
Bob Bollini

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley" 
<mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> I agree 100%. Get the best scanner you can afford and run it 
> yourself. I have gotten much better results from Polaroid 
Sprintscans 
> 4000 and 120 then the drum scans I have had made. Not because their 
> equipment isn't better but there are key creative choices that the 
> photographer needs to make.
> 
> If you could get true raw scans from an out side source (something
I 
> wonder about) that would be fine but since my raw scans off the 
SS120 
> are 550MB I would quickly be over budget.
> 
> Martin