Hey some interesting statistics from IDC about digital camera usage behavour:
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=235711...US00220705
* One-third of digital camera owners never print
* Over 10% print every image they keep
* The mean number of digital images captured per month is 75
* 14% of total digital camera owner respondents capture more than 100 images per month
* 15% of total respondents never delete any images
* 6% delete all their images (after they print them, I would hope!!)
I think I fall into the 15% that never delete any images...
I don't delete too much either. Even if there are multiple similar images. One photo can always be used to repair another. Like having spare parts.
I've been going through my stuff from 2002 and 2003, and now that sufficient time has elapsed I feel more comfortable deleting many of them. Freed up about 15gb of disc space so far, keeping just the "final" versions (those which I have printed or otherwise decided to keep) and getting rid of the RAWs.
2004 is next ...
All I can say is... disks are cheap.
Petographer Wrote:All I can say is... disks are cheap.
Yes yes ... but not too convenient. So I went and bought another external hd yesterday.
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10058
This thing is SOLID - it's built like a tank. And FAST! Whoo! Seems faster than my C: drive, though both claim 7200 rpms and I'm using USB2.0. (Wish I had Firewire 800 though ... )
:x :x :x :x :x :x Don't you just hate it when you type a huge reply only to lose it because the damn page won't load and you have to refresh? :x :x :x :x :x :x
Anyway, I'd love to have one of those Mitch. I'm just using an internal slave that is just large enough as long as I burn all my images to disk. I don't use the slave for anything else. Also speaking about burning images to disk, I need a better filing system to archive my photos. All my disks are labeled "photos with a date" I'm not finding that sufficient enough to track images I need to access.
Note to self: Copy post before submitting.
Petographer Wrote::x :x :x :x :x :x Don't you just hate it when you type a huge reply only to lose it because the damn page won't load and you have to refresh? :x :x :x :x :x :x
Note to self: Copy post before submitting.
LOL; on this forum in particular, I have gotten in the habit of hitting CTRL+A, CTRL+C every single time before I hit Submit.
I am guilty of not printing my Digital photos!!! bad I know
I will though
as soon as I get some free time
