Happily, backup software is available which will only write new and modified files to your backup mirror.

The software I referred to above - 'findimagedupes' - does that, ie it actually examines the image, so that it will report images which are visually similar despite not being represented in identical files. Ran quite happily on a 1999 Pentium II with 96MB of memory, I'm happy to report - supercomputer not required. It did take several hours to run on that machine over a collection of a couple of gig of images, however.

BTW an admin might want to delete kangyu's post, above.

Years ago I used a Perl script called findimagedupes which worked spectacularly well. When my collection of images grew to more than a gigabyte or so, I combined it with a program of my own which found and deleted exact file duplicates on a first run.

That was on a Linux computer, however. But in the Linux world there are a few free image management programs which have duplicate image finding built in, I'm sure the Windows world must have at least one.

Absolutely, just inhale it.

I wouldn't buy an expensive Plasma telly personally, or even an LCD. Either will be obsolete long before the camera is (probably when affordable OLED TVs come along).

My first 'proper' camera was a Praktica SLR given to me by my dad at the age of 18 or so. Liked that camera a lot. The first camera I bought myself was a Pentax Program A, which I bought before going to the US for the first time in 1987, and which I still have.

I was promised a camera if I passed my 11+, and I well remember going with my dad to obtain my reward, at a chemist / photography shop in Hartlepool one day in 1971. It was a Kodak 'Instamatic', exactly like this one:




It used 126 cartridge film and disposable flash cubes. I think there were three focus settings. Still have some prints that I took with that camera somewhere. Wish I still had the camera. Actually I'm tempted to look for one on eBay.

I prefer the original to the saturated version. It has a sort of serenity that the latter doesn't have. The ice looks more real, as well.

I like the first image most of the three.

Prefer number two. But wouldn't have noticed the skeletons if they hadn't been mentioned in the thread.