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 ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.