How many Gigabytes of photos do you have stored on your hard drive?

Hawaii Five-O · Jun 14, 2008

Alex_B said:
You still count in GBytes???

yes

Alex_B said:
My slide scans alone are 0.5Tbytes, and then there is the neg scans and the digital only images on different drives .... cannot be bothered to add it all up

Thats interesting that scanned film takes up more space, than digital.

Alex_B · Jun 14, 2008

C677T said:
Thats interesting that scanned film takes up more space, than digital.

more colour depth if you use the right scanner (true 16 bit), and usually more megapixels

maytay20 · Jun 14, 2008

36,517 files and 93 gigs of files.

Helen B · Jun 14, 2008

C677T said:
yes

Thats interesting that scanned film takes up more space, than digital.

Yes indeed. See post #14. At about 40 megapixels for a 35 mm frame, and 16 bits per channel, that's around 80 MB per frame. For medium and large format the files are even bigger - mostly around 500 MB each. That's only the size of the original. If you add a few layers, the file size can get quite large.

Best,
Helen

iflynething · Jun 14, 2008

73.4 gigs 26,049 pictures. Been shooting since April 27, 2006. First with a 4mp Nikon L4 now with a Nikon D80.

17,000 exposures on the L4 and going on 25,000 on the D80. I've only shot that many, but kept the 26,000 on the computer. Backed up to a 320G external

~Michael~

PS: I'm so picky with my pictures that with only 26,049 pictures, I have onl printed about 200.....what's that...some 0.7% Ha Ha

~Michale~

rufus5150 · Jun 16, 2008

I've been shooting since November of last year and I just bought my second 500Gig backup drive, so at least 500Gig of just images backed up from my internal disk, but I keep about 99% of my shots in hopes of learning something from the mistakes too.