[Leica] Editing

[Frank Filippone]

It sounds to me like you wish to "throw away" the less good DIGITAL
images..... at least that is what I read into your question......
consolidate, Maggie Steber, etc all indicate this....

The first question is ... Why?  Why do you want to edit your images?   Are
you being pushed by Almy to limit your Stock?  Some other reason?

Storage is so cheap, I can not see the thought of editing to save HDD space
as a really good idea..... HDD costs are now $20 per TB..... 
Doing some quick math... your files are 20MB per image ( a pure guess)......
or 50 images to a GB....
You have 400,000 images in 2 countries.... say half a million to make things
easy....  That would be 10,000 GB.... 
There are 1000 GB in a TB.... 
The math says you have about 10TB in images..... for a total HDD cost of
$200.
Is it really worth your time to edit images whose cost to you is your time,
when you could be using that tine creating new images that would yield you
income?

Is there something about editing that is important?  That you NEED to do to
create income for yourself?  
What would you do with the "good ones" that can not be done with ALL of
them?  

ITOD, you took your negatives and saved all of them ( ask Ted) ....  Why
does Digital Imagery require the throwing away of images? 

Buy more and bigger HDD.... edit when you take the SD cards ( or other) and
transfer them into your computer..... and go take more Pix....  

Don't worry about Marie Kondo and the KomMari Checklists.....  if that is
what is driving the question.....

Frank Filippone

Red735i at verizon.net

PESO:

I am cleaning up old files on my Drobo and trying to consolidate
everything.  Years ago, I spent a couple of weeks with Maggie Steber, a
photo editor, who helped me edit 50,000 of my Honduran photos down to about
24.  The problem is that I have many, many more than the original 50,000
that she edited.  According to my LR files, I have 174,258 photos of
Honduras.  If I spend the rest of my life editing them I will not finish.
But just glancing through, it looks like there are a lot I would include in
a final edit.  So what to do?  Recently, I have been going back editing old
family photos of European trips.  Should I stop that and work on Honduras?
I really am drawn to that because of their situation today.  The same thing
applies to Guatemala.  I have over 150,000 photos of Guatemala.  If I edit
those, I will never get to any other countries.

I think I have answered my own question but I would appreciate your
opinion, anyway.