On Nov 15, 2007 8:51 AM, Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> William Robb wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty sure I would still be on my second computer [...]  had it
> > not been for digital photography and it's ever increasing vacuuming
> > up of resources [...]
>
> Not an issue for me.  I had to increase my storage considerably when I
> started digitizing my film photos.  I also had to buy a film scanner.
> With a DSLR, the storage costs are way lower, since it's a 6/10 MP RAW
> (~12 to 15 MB) instead of a 24 MP 16-bit TIFF (~120 MB).  Shooting more
> is almost consuming that difference, though, since I keep more "master"
> images than I did with film.  And I don't need the film scanner with the
> DSLR.

Pray you never catch the panorama bug.

My 10 frame RBAR Pano that I recently posted, the layered & masked
.psb file is in the order of 1.5GB

A grunty computer is a must when working on files that large. :-)

Cheers,

Dave

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