On Feb 6, 2004, at 21:17, Alex Black wrote:
I think the consensus of opinion is to shoot on film as a backup which I think is sensible.
I think most photographers think along those lines before going digital. Don't do it. It's unnecessary and very costly, just shoot plenty on dig and adopt a proper digital workflow and you can't go wrong. And most important of all, get to know and understand how your computer functions. It'll save you hours of time wherever you are when you experience a problem.
I do a fair amount of location work aboard ships and submarines and the first thing I do (aboard) is download all digital files from cards and store them on two hard disks (La Cie pocket drives are ideal for this) and - the most important - burn them to CD. It's vital you have them stored on non magnetic media. You can't lose anything if you adopt this approach. If try and cut corners you'll be sorry one day when you're drive goes down with the only copy of the images shot.
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