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How do you store your digital photo images?

Rafter-SRafter-S Member Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
I was wondering how different folks stored the images they took with their digital camera. I am in the process of making the conversion from film to digital and still have lots to learn...hopefully not the hard way.
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    I have just recently started to store some of mine on Imagestation. Most are just stored on my computer in my pictures folder. Have a 60gig hard drive, so it will be a long time before it gets too full.

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  • Richie RichRichie Rich Member Posts: 439 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hard drive and cd-r

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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mostly, my network file server! But, just store them on your hard drive if you have enough free space. The only thing to consider is having a reliable backup incase of disk failure. I save everything to hard drive first, but then make CD-R backups later.

    60GB drives are huge, but they can get full in a hurry with digital images and movies.

    Good luck!
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  • Rafter-SRafter-S Member Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a friend who lost all her images when her computer crashed. I was thinking CDRW as a good storage but wondered what others were doing.

    What model CDRW would you suggest and where would I go to buy it?

    I sure appreciate all the help you folks have been.
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The size of your wallet is the only limiting factor. Burners sell for a little as $100.00 now. That is a far cry from the $450.00 for my first one. And I had buffer underruns every other cd. I also have an HP that has preformed well over the years. There are also USB burners for mobility. Blank CD-Rs sell for 3 1/2 cents each, and rewrites for as little as 7 1/2 cents. Pretty cheap for a non degradeing storage system.

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  • bhayes420bhayes420 Member Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I bought a HP 9100 series CD-RW a couple months back for $69.00. Works great. That 60gb HD won't last long if you store many pics on it, especially at a decent resolution. Spring for the cd-writer. Helps with backups too.
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  • pigeoncreek1pigeoncreek1 Member Posts: 217 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have second hard drive and a CD-RW for mp3's and digital pics

    Rafter...Check out the following link, refer to the Editor's top 5 list. This will give you an idea of what some of the better drives are like, along with user opinions...

    http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-2645886-7-1648568.html?tag=st.co.1091.top5

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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My "General Purpose" computer is a lap top with 17 gig hard drive, but I also have an old Pentium desk-top with a 266 processor thats upgraded with 2 60 gig hard drives that I use for storage ... We take a lot of pictures of Abby (now 21 months old) and in that time over a couple thousand pics, and keeping them on a computer is nice for finding them. I used to do the direct connect thing to transfer, but now I burn a cd to transfer them and keep the cd in a firebox inside my safe which is also fireproof ... we've also burned copies of the cd's to send to other family around the country as Abby is my wife's only child and her parents only grandchild.

    Depending on its importance, you cant have enough copies.


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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    TDK 16/10/40 CD burner. CD's re pretty cheap and you can load a bunch on 'em.
    To be honest, Mrs. Mudge does the burning.

    Mudge the computerly illiterate

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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    It depends too on how big they are, what format, and what you're doing with them. I have some of my pics in .jpg format on a web site, so if my computer crashes they'll still be up there in cyberspace. I hear there are places that allow web space to be used for storage online. In terms of backups at home, it depends how big your files must be to be useful to you. If you need hi-res files of as much as 800k to 4 meg or so in size (like advertising people use) then I would say backing up to a CD-R or CD-RW makes good sense. If it's a matter of learning how to save your pictures smaller, then you need a good graphics software, like Paint Shop Pro, or Photoshop, or some other brand, and learn to use it to take large pictures and make them smaller in size without degrading them more than is acceptable.

    Personally, for a long time I used Paint Shop Pro for this. I would take a large file, like a .bmp or a .tif, and save it as Indexed color with 256 colors instead of 16 million. This alone will bring the size down. Then I would reduce the actual image dimensions (image size) to a reasonable size for me. That makes the file size smaller still. Then, I would "Save As..." a JPEG (.jpg). This compresses the file to something you might put up on the internet. You can reduce a file to 1/10th or so of its original size by saving as a medium-quality JPEG.

    Nowadays I use the newer version of Photoshop, which has a "Save for the Web" command that beautifully does all this automatically. It saves at either hi, medium, or lo compression JPEG, and gives you a preview of several size choices, making it easy to pick one that still looks good enough (that is, maintains enough resolution) but will load over the internet reasonably fast. Photoshop even tells you how many seconds each jpg size will take to download on a 56k modem, or a 28.8k, etc. Very cool.

    The general rule, by the way, is that jpg is better for photos, and gif should be reserved for "paint-style" graphics and logos.

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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rafter --
    As for hardware, go to any store you trust (Best Buy, or whomever) and find the best quality value in a CD burner. Once the cd has been written, your pictures are safe, even if your burner crashes some day. As long as the cds are good, the pictures will remain backed up. They'll play on any PC-CD drive.

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  • LagoLago Member Posts: 464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Be sure to back up on a regular basis. Also, keep in mind that the CD's may someday be obsolete. Media formats can change. Look what happened to the floppy disks.
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    Look what happened to the Beta video concept.

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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You might also consider looking into the DVD writers available today. Not only can you create movies that you can play on your television DVD player (if you have one) but you can also store data. 4.7 Gigabytes worth!



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