[LRflex] Re: Digital Workflow - How Do You Cope?
- From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:43:47 -0800
At 01/02/2009, you wrote:
Aram Langhans wrote:
So, a lightroom question. I use it and love it. But, since all
changes are non-destructive, does anyone have a good workflow for
saving the images? My tendency is to save all my RAW files on DVD,
then work on them and then export the ones I have worked on to TIFF
or Photoshop files. That means more DVDs. I toyed with the idea
of exporting the catalog to DVD, but what good will that be when
lightroom is no longer available in 10 years?
Might still be - I started using MS Word in ???
Else exporting as JPEG looks fine. It is so commonly used I can't
imagine it disappearing all of a sudden - and then you'll have converters.
Off topic; I'm currently in the process of buying a converter for my
kids video films so that I can have them on DVD with minimum loss. I
sometimes trust technology, and business. Sometimes ;-)
Back to topic - another possibility would be DNG, an open standard,
and maybe longer lasting, I don't know. If someone knows of a safer way ...
Ph
Philippe & Aram. Good Mornin' to ye both!
I agree, that DNG is likely to be a long lasting standard. So, also
are the NEF & NRW (Nikon) and CRW & CR2 (Canon) formats, if only
because of the size of their makers, and the sheer number of camera
bodies using these formats.
Sadly, I don't have as much faith in long term support for the
already gone PTX (Pentax), MRW (Minolta) formats, nor for the current
formats from smaller makers, such as PEF (Pentax), RAF (Fuji), ERF
(Epson) or even the ORF files from my current Olympus.
That is why I use Adobe's free DNG converter to change all my ORF
files to DNG files, as I copy them to my hard drive. And I keep
hoping that more camera makers will offer a choice of their
proprietary format, or DNG, as Pentax does.
We all want the latest and greatest, but remember, old computers and
old software continues to work. In the late 70s, I wrote (using
Turbo-Pascal, for those who remember it) a full POS (point of sale)
package, with general ledger, for my retail business. To this day,
my computer is dual bootable, with a partition, running MS-DOS 6.2
and my software. The firm is now gone, but I have occasions where I
need to refer to the old records and it still works just fine.
When I'm running Windoze 14, I expect to have an XP partition,
running my current software. I will then be able to export my files
in TiFF (or whatever format can be read by the backwards compatible
software of the day) to my new OS.
The loss of images through the failure to back them up, or through
the failure to maintain old image libraries is, perhaps, the biggest
risk in digital photography. Thanks to digital, the hobby of
photography is regaining popularity on a huge scale. Because of it's
low cost, we now live in the most recorded age in history. But, it
is likely to be the least remembered, by future generations, due to
most peoples lack of care with their digital images.
Cheers!
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David Young,
Logan Lake, CANADA
Limited Edition Prints at: www.furnfeather.net
Personal Web-site at: www.main.furnfeather.net
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