Comments on: Backup Solutions for Photographers http://photographyminute.com/backup-solutions-for-photographers.htm Sharing photos, reviews and tips for photographers Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:53:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eric D. Brown http://photographyminute.com/backup-solutions-for-photographers.htm/comment-page-1#comment-32 Eric D. Brown Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:07:08 +0000 http://onefourphotography.com/?p=626#comment-32 For regular photos, Flickr is great but for a serious amateur or professional, it isn't the ideal option for Backup. Great for sharing image (I use it of course - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericbrown/)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericbrown/)</a> but it isn't a backup solution for someone shooting RAW and wanting to keep copies of those RAW files. I use Adobe DNG and work with it...all photos I take are backed up as original DNG and then any edits are stored in a copy of that image. If I use Flickr as my sole means of backup, I'd not be able to keep the original DNG in storage...all I'd have is a converted JPG of that image on Flickr's server. When you try to download your image(s), you won't really get the original back...you get a converted JPG image with all of the JPG conversion and compression artifacts (if any). Also, Flickr has a monthly bandwidth limit of 2GB...I take more than 2GB of photos at one time and my wife's shots are even larger because of the Canon 5D Mark II file size (21MP stored in RAW is ~75MB per image). For regular photos, Flickr is great but for a serious amateur or professional, it isn't the ideal option for Backup. Great for sharing image (I use it of course – http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericbrown/) but it isn't a backup solution for someone shooting RAW and wanting to keep copies of those RAW files.

I use Adobe DNG and work with it…all photos I take are backed up as original DNG and then any edits are stored in a copy of that image. If I use Flickr as my sole means of backup, I'd not be able to keep the original DNG in storage…all I'd have is a converted JPG of that image on Flickr's server. When you try to download your image(s), you won't really get the original back…you get a converted JPG image with all of the JPG conversion and compression artifacts (if any).

Also, Flickr has a monthly bandwidth limit of 2GB…I take more than 2GB of photos at one time and my wife's shots are even larger because of the Canon 5D Mark II file size (21MP stored in RAW is ~75MB per image).

]]> By: Magnus http://photographyminute.com/backup-solutions-for-photographers.htm/comment-page-1#comment-31 Magnus Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:28:36 +0000 http://onefourphotography.com/?p=626#comment-31 What's wrong with Flickr? I give them $25 per year and they store all of mine in original format. What's wrong with Flickr? I give them $25 per year and they store all of mine in original format.

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