Nikon 24-85VR - harvest time soon

[Greg McCary]

Nice work Charles. I have been baby sitting a D800 and 17-35mm. The whole camera is over kill for what I do. But I am sure in 5 or 10 years the huge files will seem small.
If I do keep it I plan just to get a few primes. I am still happy with the a850 but I would think the D800 would be the last camera a landscaper would ever need.
How would you manage 1000's of pictures if you were an ever day fashion shooter? I filled a hard drive already this year with my little old Sony.

[Franglais]

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How would you manage 1000's of pictures if you were an ever day fashion shooter? I filled a hard drive already this year with my little old Sony.

All of my image files are on external drives:

- an SSD for files I'm working on
- a NAS for the finished JPG's
- offline USB drives for the RAW files.

Disks have been growing even faster than image sizes. Currently I buy 2TB drives (less than $100 for a bare drive). That's enough for 46000 D800 RAW files.

The hard drive of my main portable just contains databases (ACDSee for the JPG's, Lightroom for the RAW files) to let me keep track of things. There is also a thumbnail of each image with all the metadata and all my collections of images.

[Greg McCary]

All of my image files are on external drives:

- an SSD for files I'm working on
- a NAS for the finished JPG's
- offline USB drives for the RAW files.

Disks have been growing even faster than image sizes. Currently I buy 2TB drives (less than $100 for a bare drive). That's enough for 46000 D800 RAW files.

The hard drive of my main portable just contains databases (ACDSee for the JPG's, Lightroom for the RAW files) to let me keep track of things. There is also a thumbnail of each image with all the metadata and all my collections of images.

Thanks Charles I have yet to buy any drives in the TB range but I guess I will need to. My first round with the D800 was stitching a panoramic and even though I have plenty of HD space at the moment. But running both Lightroom and CS6 at the same time slowed my computer down some.