The drawback to the online-storage-with-backup approach has traditionally been cost. But disk cost per byte has been plummeting at a greater-than-historical rate for the last fifteen years, and it’s now so low that, for most serious photographers, it’s not an impediment to online storage of all your images. Why are disk prices dropping so fast?… [Read More]
Backing up photographic images, part 2
Okay, let’s get started. People occasionally ask me what techniques I recommend for archiving images. I tell them that I don’t recommend archiving images at all, but I strongly recommend backing them up. Let me explain the difference. When you create an archive of an image, you make a copy of that image that you… [Read More]
Backing up photographic images, part 1
In response to changes in computer technology, I’ve done a complete rewrite of the page on this site called “Backing up Photographic Images”. Over the next few days, I’ll be posting it here. Here’s the preface: In chemical photography, you have only one master image of each exposure. It’s stored on the film you put… [Read More]
Downsampling with Lightroom
These days I’m as likely to reduce resolution when printing as I am to increase it. The slit scan files come out of the camera at up to 9000×64000 pixels. The sweep panos are typically 8000×24000. Even if you’re not using such extreme file sizes, you may be downsampling too. If you’ve got a D800… [Read More]
Printer resampling testing with no printer
I’ve been doing all my printer resampling testing by scanning actual printed output. I think that makes sense when you trying to evaluate the complete system. It allows you to see how the resampling interacts with the printer itself, and also allows you to see what differences in resampling more important for actual printing. However,… [Read More]
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