Backup Costs for Photographers: A Survival Guide
Wouldn't we all love to keep every photograph we've ever taken? Not just the keeper shots, but every missed shot too ! Every missed focus, every foray into hand-held one-leg tip-toe slow-shutter earthquake photography, every shot of a person whose expression and demeanor is so bland you might as well get them out of the way and make the brick wall behind them into a subject instead. Just in case a photo ends up being important in the future! Of course, we're not amateurs, those rubes who find themselves content with the comforting simplicity and space efficiency of JPEG files. We're professionals, dammit! We must shoot and store everything in RAW , just in case a new editing technique we learn years down the road allows us to reveal the hidden beauty in a photograph that's languished for years in our private collection. Storage companies reserve the very best of their wares for us esteemed professionals. We massage our egos with shopping carts full of...