2009/10/5 Dario Bonazza <[email protected]>: > Graydon wrote: > >> Point. >> >> Though, really, DNG on the K20D is 329 DNG files to the 8 GB SD card. 8 >> GB cards are well under 30 CAD per these days. (Yeah, I buy no-name >> from small computer shops on College St., but never mind; the point is >> that an 8 GB card is not expensive.) >> >> I've managed to fill two 8 GB cards precisely once; my brain gives out >> around 600 exposures, as a general rule. To get to a difference between >> DNG and PEF storage that adds up to a single 8 GB SD card, you need to >> take a thousand shots or more on each photographic outing. >> >> This does not strike me as an operative difference; maybe I don't take >> very many shots, I don't know. > > What about hard disk space and extra time for backup? I already have four > USB external drives connected to my PC (2x500GB + 2x 1TB), and I'm short of > space, so I'm going to add two more USB units very soon (one unit being the > backup for the other one). At this shooting pace, I'm adding a couple drives > a year. Within 10 years from now, I'm planning to have 24 external drives in > my small room. Of course, I'm going to do something for shrinking that into > fewer larger units, but I'm afraid of the time for managing copying all > those data sooner or later. Even before figuring the whole bill, I tend to > not waste hard disk space. > > Dario >
In theory, you should have a delete button at your keyboard. I humbly suggest you use it before you drown in files Dario. Some months ago I had about 10.000 files in my archive. Had absolutely no idea what was in there. After some heavy editing and deleting I'm down to 5.000, and now I know. I can assure you, that's a wonderful feeling. -- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
