If you use memory cards like film...how do you store / organize them?

[manaheim]

Did the original question ever get answered?

Put them in a shoe box organized by date.

Ok, you can close it now.

Actually, I've had a moment of enlightenment.

My idea of hard drives is madness.

What everyone should do from now on is this...

1. Drive 16 miles to Best Buy in your car, consuming 2 gallons of gas.
2. Buy card at Best Buy for 16x price you would pay on Newegg. Only buy one!
3. Take pictures.
4. Go home.
5. Run program that takes image file and prints it to your color laserjet... as 1s and 0s. Not an image, just the binary representation of same.
6. Store each image in a file box.
7. Fill your basement with file boxes.
8. Smash card repeatedly with a hammer when images have been transferred.
9. Microwave the card.
10. Buy a new hammer.
11. Kick the cat.
12. Punch yourself in the face.
13. Buy new face.
14. Repeat.

 

[Kolia]

Why save as TIFF and not simply keep the RAW file ?

Sony PMB isn't a very good utility. I only use it to upload to the PC and sometime to access shoe of the EXIF information or apply some preset styling option.

Lightroom is better to manage and archive the RAW data.


I just transferred my 20,000 images library from my old 1TB to the new 3TB. It took an hour or so.

They are TIFFs because you can't manipulate raw files in filtering software. I'm sure you knew that. Again, I have the raw files-right where I left them.
I do not have nor want LR. Tried it in Beta a decade ago, wasn't really impressed and never saw the need to try it again.
Don't know what Sony PMB is or what you mean by it. I have Sony Image Converter SR, which mimics the camera's settings, except ISO, so the raw files can be "fixed", ie: noise, wb, sharpening, Ev, etc. Converter does not save changes as raw.
Good for you

You really need to check out LR and get updated to the current software's capabilities. Sony Image Converter doesn't measure up to LR.

PMB should have been included with your Sony camera's startup bundle.

 

[TruckerDave]

Actually, I've had a moment of enlightenment.

My idea of hard drives is madness.

What everyone should do from now on is this...

1. Drive 16 miles to Best Buy in your car, consuming 2 gallons of gas.
2. Buy card at Best Buy for 16x price you would pay on Newegg. Only buy one!
3. Take pictures.
4. Go home.
5. Run program that takes image file and prints it to your color laserjet... as 1s and 0s. Not an image, just the binary representation of same.
6. Store each image in a file box.
7. Fill your basement with file boxes.
8. Smash card repeatedly with a hammer when images have been transferred.
9. Microwave the card.
10. Buy a new hammer.
11. Kick the cat.
12. Punch yourself in the face.
13. Buy new face.
14. Repeat.

Actually #14 is "get into useless argument on internet forum" and 15. Is "repeat"


It always amazes me how fast a simple question devolves into a pi**ing match on these threads.

 

[EIngerson]

Did the original question ever get answered?

Put them in a shoe box organized by date.

Ok, you can close it now.

Actually, I've had a moment of enlightenment.

My idea of hard drives is madness.

What everyone should do from now on is this...

1. Drive 16 miles to Best Buy in your car, consuming 2 gallons of gas.
2. Buy card at Best Buy for 16x price you would pay on Newegg. Only buy one!
3. Take pictures.
4. Go home.
5. Run program that takes image file and prints it to your color laserjet... as 1s and 0s. Not an image, just the binary representation of same.
6. Store each image in a file box.
7. Fill your basement with file boxes.
8. Smash card repeatedly with a hammer when images have been transferred.
9. Microwave the card.
10. Buy a new hammer.
11. Kick the cat.
12. Punch yourself in the face.
13. Buy new face.
14. Repeat.

I generated this up in an excel document as a checklist for future workflow. Thank you.

 

[AndrewofAdelaide]

so what are you saying!

 

[AndrewofAdelaide]

i think it is personal and depends on the type of photographer you are and the type of photography that you do. for me, i'm still figuring it out. sometimes i jst want to keep it all on the SD cards, but really-- you'd need a contact sheet for it. so i store all my images (and media) on an external HD.

 

[Overread]

And I think its time to close this as we are getting rather confused with analogies it seems