Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/21

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Subject: [Leica] TB drives and digital realities
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sat Oct 21 19:23:04 2006

Terabyte, petabyte, or mosquito byte, I'd still advise converting those RAW
files to Adobe DNGs and tossing the RAWs. I use the DNG converter to bring
files from my CF cards onto my hard drive - the RAW files never darken my
computer's door. My RAW files are around 11 meg, and the DNG files - using a
lossless compression - are about 4 meg, which no matter what your drive
size, allows for the storage of allot more files.


On 10/21/06 9:50 PM, "Eric Korenman" <faneuil@gmail.com> wrote:

> just an observation in awe.
> 
> I just bought a Terabyte drive from Western Digital.
> Seems those 20mb RAW files eat up space like nuts.
> For awhile I was tossing the RAWs after editing and converting the keepers
> to level 9 JPEGS.
> It soon became clear that this is like making prints and then burning your
> negatives.
> 
> Just amazed that we can buy a terabyte drive for under $500.
> I am sure I will laugh 5 years from now when talk of 50 or 100 TB is 
> common.
> Anyone care for a Petabyte Drive?
> 
> Eric
> 
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