" … photographer who shoots 10,000 raw files a year and edit, say, 1 out of every 10 images … " … Presumably, when they say edit they mean compress it into a jpeg, and also possibly resize it for the internet. But what about the other 9 images, are they kept on the computer for posible editing at a later date? I know lots of people do that and raw files are big. Plus there is no mention of camera sensor size: a keen photographer can use a full frame, apsc, or micro four thirds camera, big difference in picture size.
Anyway, I’d like to know what Jaded meant when he said: “Most of that puppies storage is online”, I’m familiar with cloud storage, I have all my favourite photos up there now. They are also on my HD and HHD along with countless other pic. My current PC has the same storage spec as the new one: 512 GB and it’s only about 25% full.
I would assume so, yes…because I don’t know about you but I don’t delete any of my images (unless they are utterly uneditable), and use them to practice different filters or effects with.
I can’t answer for Jaded, but I would imagine he meant online in the cloud. But that needs to be paid for, so I think I would be a bit grumpy paying out a load of money for a new PC, then having to pay again for somewhere to stash my stuff. Plus the internet fees…also, what if you had internet issues. Does that mean you couldn’t access them? No I’m old fashioned, I like my stuff to hand.
On a bad day, I can take 100 photos, view them on my PC screen when they are still on the card, see just one I really like and save it to the computer drive. The card goes back into camera and is formatted to clean it, deleting everything.
There’s loads of free cloud storage: I use Google Photos.
I used to use Flickr and Dropbox. Are they both still free?
Flickr isn’t…well…the “free” version is severely limited and there are ads all over the place which suggest you go for the pro version. I don’t know how much it is, because it was taken over by Yahoo, and I don’t like Yahoo.
Dropbox is ok-ish for free…very basic. You get a 14 day trial of 2TB storage (which you have to input your payment details first so they can automatically charge you once you forget to cancel).
I like google photos, 15GB of storage for free, plus editing tools, albums, you can have the same photo in 100 different albums, but it counts as just one photo. All very nice and user-friendly.
I’m thinking (or looking) at Windows laptop…I have a Chromebook which is alright for browsing, but you have to download a ton of Apps to get any work done
@dood it’s got a 512gb ssd which is a solid state drive unlike older computers that had large er drives.
That’s 512gb for everything… programs , storage the lot . Windows 11 uploads a lot to the cloud which isn’t much use if the internet connection fails.
So you’ll need a further ssd ideally to store more files …
As was shown a fairly short time taking photos is going to eat that storage pretty fast.
download Belarc Adviser that will tell you all about your computer and it is free
if windows comes pre installed it will even give the Windows serial number as in this screen shot, See under software licences heading. You won’t find a better computer interrogation program, I have used it for many years
I’m not at home with that PC at mo. But half of that 7.90GB is in the Download folder, plus there’s GBs in the recycle bin. That covers most of it, and both those destinations are not automatically included in what’s safe to remove without first checking.
