[HUG] Re: For those wishing to become digits

Quoting Justin F. Knotzke, who wrote on Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:37:41PM -0500 ..
> On 06/11/2007, Wilko Bulte <wb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Jim Brick, who wrote on Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:25:23PM -0800 ..
> > > But hey... look how much you save!
> >
> > An arm you save.  But you will still need crutches because you will loose
> > the leg.
> 
> 
>    Someone must be buying these things. There was an article in PDN magazine
> a while back that focused on these types of digital backs and what kind of
> rates and clients a photographer must have to get any type of ROI on these
> suckers..
> 
>    Buyers appear to be commercial photogs who shoot catalogs for JCrew etc
> and Hollywood studios for promos of their films. One photog said his biggest
> problem with these backs was what to do with all the files. He has all his
> data backed up in triplicate. I believe he was running a RAID 5 with
> terabytes of storage..

Well, the first 1TB disks are available so it is not as bad anymore.

>    What also came out from this was that now there are companies who will
> handle all your data storage, retrieval etc for you. That once we sent our
> film to be processed and now we send our digital files to be handled off
> site..

Yeah.  There is enough market potential in data storage kit.  Happens
to be my day job :^)

Wilko

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