all good points re Raw being the negative equivalent i guess and more amenable for future tweaking.

Looks like external hard drive is the way to go with DVD back up for offsite storage at my sis-in-law.

thanks all

Hello

I'm a neewbie to the forum and actually a neewbie to Digital SLR's. I have a K10D with kit lens and have had it a year and am learning about all it;s functionality and creative options it offers.

I've recently decided to shoot Raw and have Elements 7 for processing.

However my PC is just about full what with ipod songs as well as photos.

Question is do you back up your Raw files AND converted Jpegs, or do you just tend to save one of either Raw files or jpegs. I'm thinking of deleting the raw files once processed as they take up so much space. That said i don;t have a separate Hard DRive (yet!)

Advice welcome.

Richard