Photo Storage
Mine are stored on my computer and it's back up. I'm not a member of FB so I cant post photos there and I certainly wouldn't store them there.
Better I think to make our own arrangments.
No one, I don’t know to upload images to web sites.
No two, I assume your images are available to everyone.
No three, what if the site where your images are stored, closes down.
I have my images stored on the computers inboard hard drive.
Plus copies on three external hard drives, I hope, as I don’t know how to check, but know a man that does.
Take care.
I. El. (Eng). (Rtd).
Not having at least three copies (preferably in RAW) of *anything* you value is pointless.
Not storing at least one copy offsite is even sillier.
Not checking that the backups still work occasionally is asking for trouble.
Not trusting a company - hmm, I can give some credit on that one, but that's the way things go.
I personally have at least two copies of everything with minimal exceptions. Of course most of my stuff's online - I share with my parents and others whom I trust and then publish what I feel is appropriate. Yes, I can get to private photos *if* I have the URL, but there's a line between "I'm paranoid" and "I want others to see what I've done".
None of the online backup sites really work for 'togs apart from the real photographer ones and they cost a fortune. Which is why something like 23hq - which doesn't overly compress or charge the earth - is worth treasuring.
Bret
my kit: K3, K5, K-01, DA 18-55, D-FA50 macro, Siggy 30/1.4, 100-300/f4, 70-200/2.8, Samsung 12-24/f4, Tamron 17-50, and lots of other bits.
I'm not saying 100% that my files cannot be hacked, but they are not generally accessible and the copyright is very definitely mine.
Concert photography
Currently on a Pentax hiatus until an FF Pentax is released
I would not trust my original image files with anyone other than myself. That way, if any gets lost I only have my own a*s to kick. Who's a*s would I kick if an online service lost them, as facebook did a short time ago for some users.
I keep my originals on my PC's hard drive and back up to a NAS system. This in turn is backud up onto 2 separate 2Tb external HDD's. The PC is backed up to a separate external 1Tb HDD, and to two 3.5" drives which are then confined to my fire safe.
I think that should be enough resilience to the most disastrous of disasters.
I used to use my NAS system, a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ with 4 x 1Tb (2.7Tb usable) HDD's, to store the originals and to work from, but it was way too slow for me.
For example how many scan their important documents into PDF and store these off site or are they stuffed into a "shoebox" with everything else.
I suspect very few - so are photographs more important that eg insurance documents, birth/marriage certificates, medical cards, driving license etc etc etc?
Bernard
How far do you go down the backup route before paranoia sets in.
For example how many scan their important documents into PDF and store these off site or are they stuffed into a "shoebox" with everything else.
I suspect very few - so are photographs more important that eg insurance documents, birth/marriage certificates, medical cards, driving license etc etc etc?
Bernard
I dont trust myself let alone anyone else
I lost quite a lot of images taken with my istD (about 75%) when a hard drive failed, I had them backed up on an external drive when I decided to wipe my PC and re-instal windows, all went well and I then copied my images back onto the PC, of course the back up drive threw a wobbly before I'd completed the transfer
Now I copy to a second drive in the PC and also to an external drive, any images I take on holiday are usually on my laptop too.
Getting back to the OP, a friend of my daughter had all her pictures of a school trip to China on facebook; her PC was stolen and, through no fault of hers, facebook closed her account. All pictures lost.
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
The one advantage of online storage as one of those places is the ability to access them from various locations. If you move about quite a bit (as I often do) having an online filestore can be a great help.
K.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
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This Canadian news agency is reporting that 4% of all photos ever taken are stored on Facebook. Pretty impressive.