[Leica] Re: Advice needed

[leicar at q.com (Aram Langhans)]

So how do you handle the idea that Lightroom changes are non-destructive and
if you save the original, none of the changes are saved when you backup your
files?  Do you export them as Tiff?  Do you backup the Lightroom catalog in
the hopes that 10 years down the road you will able to read the catalog and
see all the changes you made when you developed your photos?  I have been
pondering this for quite some time as I like Lightroom, but I am not sure
how to archive my images.  I guess I could just archive the originals and
then if I need them again make the changes again.  Kind of like interpreting
a negative differently every time you print it.

Aram

> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:53:54 -0600
> From: Clive Moss <Clive@moss.net>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Advice needed
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> Wow - I started on my collection of negatives several years ago - and
> made almost no progress. Your time of 6 minutes per scan seems close
> to mine - but it took you 250 8 hour days to scan 20,000 images! I
> have a hard time scanning for an hour at a time - my ADD kicks in
> really quickly :-(
> 
> To address some of your questions:
> 
> 1) Store them on hard drives - with at least one back-up, preferably
> off-site in a bank vault. Make sure the backup is read occasionally to
> be sure that the drive still works.
> 2) I don't use iPhote - but my Lightroom catalog has 85,000 images
> with good performance.
> 
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