Digital Age...
There has been some major shift in my workflow:
1) I have started shooting in RAW format for the sake of archiving as well as the advantage of lossless quality in shooitng digitally.
Although I have advocated not shooting in RAW for events due to the fact of HDD/ CF space vs time constraint, the recent up-coming exhibition had me examining the quality of printing out Jpgs vs printing out from a RAW copy.
2) In so, there has been an increase in outlaying cost to match the digital age.
Bigger HDDs (bought 2x 320Gig IDE HDDs)
Network Storage Hud linked to my Router Ethernet port
More CF cards
Bigger capacity RAM chips for faster conversion of RAW to JPEGS
Archiving for future and Data mirroring for security
My thoughts so far - Digital Age is not as cheap as it comes advertised. Yes, we can shoot more hypothetically but the background cost is heavier as well.
I'm not complaining but it's a step that I would encourage all serious photographers and other professionals to start thinking about as the megapixels get bigger and techology gets better.
1) I have started shooting in RAW format for the sake of archiving as well as the advantage of lossless quality in shooitng digitally.
Although I have advocated not shooting in RAW for events due to the fact of HDD/ CF space vs time constraint, the recent up-coming exhibition had me examining the quality of printing out Jpgs vs printing out from a RAW copy.
2) In so, there has been an increase in outlaying cost to match the digital age.
Bigger HDDs (bought 2x 320Gig IDE HDDs)
Network Storage Hud linked to my Router Ethernet port
More CF cards
Bigger capacity RAM chips for faster conversion of RAW to JPEGS
Archiving for future and Data mirroring for security
My thoughts so far - Digital Age is not as cheap as it comes advertised. Yes, we can shoot more hypothetically but the background cost is heavier as well.
I'm not complaining but it's a step that I would encourage all serious photographers and other professionals to start thinking about as the megapixels get bigger and techology gets better.
I agreed with you on those points. What we used to call "hidden costs" are now "realistic costs".
Posted by
Anonymous |
8:52 AM
hate to disagree with you. but as a photograher and ex-systems analyst. ram conversion is thoroughly dependent on CPU speed. number of files you can open in photoshop without hitting the harddisk swap file is dependent on RAM.
Posted by
Anonymous |
5:45 PM
Hi Anonymous,
thanks for the enlightenment :)
Posted by
ShutterBug |
11:19 PM