On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 06:15:07PM -0400, David J Brooks wrote: > Walter, I keep just about everything i shoot, unless its totally OOF > then i'll delete it.
I regard deleting digital images much as I would regard shredding negatives; it's an irreversible step, and one that offers no real benefits. Nowadays disk space costs $100 or less for a Terabyte. $50 worth of hard drive space will hold more images than you will probably take during the life of a $500 camera. Optical media (DVDs) are cheaper still - $40 or less gets you a Terabyte - but without the speed and convenience of directly-addressable near-line storage. Double the price, of course - everything should be replicated on multiple drives (and, if you're serious, kept at multiple sites). But even so I don't think deleting images is worth doing. If you never delete images it makes it harder to accidentally delete the wrong one. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
