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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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When you take your pics of a coin you end up with a pic in Zoom Browser, one in your saved place and the RAW one in Digital Photo Pro.
My ? is "do you save the RAW pics"
If you do we are saving the pics in 3 places.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I use a Canon T3 and no I delete any extra pictures. I made a special folder that my camera saves to and delete any copies that aren't in it. Having said that since I made the folder I haven't had to delete too many....I also delete the original image after I make any adjustment needed (i.e. trimming, white balance) and have saved under new name.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks Mont I just remember reading some where on here that you don't delete the raw pics.
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United States
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I do save the Canon Raw files. In my case, with tethered shooting, the raw files end up in one folder on the C:disk. I copy this folder over to a different hard drive (F:disk as backup), and then move the folder from the C:disk to a data disk (E:disk), so I end up with two copies of the raw files (on the E:disk and F:disk), not three.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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@pepa
You have 2 raw files saved, what about the finished copy?
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United States
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You have 2 raw files saved, what about the finished copy? In addition to the Canon raw files, I save TIFF files (in case the Canon Raw files become unsupported at some future time). For stacked images, I don't bother saving the umpteen individual TIFFs, just the final output one from Zerene Stacker. The TIFF files are renamed to something like "1792_DE_Saxe_Weimar_Eisenach_3pfennig_1a_DPP_2015_07_25__0021.TIF", and they get saved on two different disks (since the renaming takes quite a bit of effort). In addition, selected TIFF files get converted to JPEG before uploading, and these are also saved away in pre-upload and post-upload folders. In addition, from time to time, I copy the folders with the raw files and TIFFs to an external hard-drive, for additional backup. I eventually end up with quite a few copies. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Wow I commend you, that is a lot of work. The external hard drive idea I do like.
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United Kingdom
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I use the Canon software and take very high quality photos. Each photo I take gives a Raw copy (CR2) and a Jpeg. I open the photos in the CR2, in the Canon editing software, edit my photos, then I save and convert directly to jpeg. I then delete the first two photos.
External Hard Drives are pretty inexpensive now, and I would always recommend getting one if you are running out of storage.
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Pillar of the Community
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Yes I save the raw files. The jpg that the camera generates is very good. But in case I want to do something several years from now, I want the original full file.
For example Google just released a new jpg encoder. It's slower but produces files of higher quality that are 15% smaller and fully compatible with existing viewers. But I don't want to start from the existing jpg with it's lower quality and compression artifacts, do I?
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