This blog is for members of the Wanganui Camera Club to ‘judge’, evaluate, and appreciate member images.
It is recommended that before you comment on a photo that you read the excellent article by Adie Ethna – ‘Analysis of Judging’. This is a PDF paper ‘Help Sheet’ available from the PSNZ website here.
I have condensed this into an evaluation form which will soon be available online.
May I use this site to ask for information?
If so, I would like to ask about saving images to an external hard drive back up.
Should I use compression and can the images be restored to original quality when they are retrieved?
Or should I save them as the original size?
Thanks for any advice
Di
Hi Di… I would not back up photo files as compressed. Actually they do not compress very much anyway… unlike other data files. Are you shooting RAW or JPEG? Mark
Thanks Mark
I want to back up my whole library – and
so older are JPeg but more recent RAW.
So you recommend all as original size ?
Di
Di,
Just back them up in the normal way making your destination the external hard drive, or if you want instant access to them then copy them to the hard drive. I will admit to being paranoiac about mine and I have a RAID array which is two identical drives mirroring each other so if one fails the data and programmes are all on the other. I also have a 1.5Tb – terabyte – external and use Retrospect Professional to back up to that on a daily basis as a progressive backup and when it becomes full I do a full recycle backup.
If we go away for the weekend one half of the RAID and the external are hidden around the house.
If you don’t already have an external hard drive be very careful of what you purchase. Look for one whose warranty matches the warranty for the same brand and model of internal drive. Some external drives are only 12 months while the equivalent internal are 60 months. Ask yourself why?
Hugh