Thomas A Anderson
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Some more dubious analysis from Tony Northrup. I don’t recommend watching the video because his analysis is so utterly skewed and useless, but at this point he’s got so many subscribers I don’t think avoiding him as a subject will do any good.
Tony sings the praises of HEIF/HEIC as a replacement for JPEG and then supports his conclusion with poorly reasoned or intentionally misleading nonsense scare tactics. He discusses the cost/benefit ratio in terms of JPEG or RAW files collected over a lifetime of shooting……and then assumes that total number as a cost to back up from day one. Assuming a linear progression, calculating a cloud backup cost that slowly increases in capacity over years or decades wouldn’t be hard to do. Heck, you could even do that analysis on a month-by-month basis with some fairly rudimentary formulas in Excel using a brute force approach.
So, he starts by talking about shooting 100,000 images over a career (conservative, so that’s something at least) and then saying the best way to back them up is on the cloud. That may be convenient, but anyone who wants to control their images and avoid general release to the entire world via the inevitable hack will just buy a few hard drives and institute a fairly straight forward backup plan. And hard drives get cheaper and better as time goes on, so the value proposition only improves over time.
He then goes on to say that using a lossless compression system for RAW files is basically useless and stupid. You’ll note that at the beginning he says this isn’t going to be yet another RAW vs. JPEG video. That lasted about seven minutes. Some more words come out of his face once again saying how dumb RAW is and how great compressed files (JPEG and now HEIF) are.
And the icing on the cake is going to the camera storage and using the most expensive SD cards available to compare costs. He then goes on to say the buffer will get extended by 2X with a file that is half the size, ignoring that only the cheapest cameras have any real JPEG buffer wall.
Honestly, Tony is moving towards Ken Rockwell’s side of the spectrum in terms of the extremely poor logic used to justify poor conclusions.
Tony sings the praises of HEIF/HEIC as a replacement for JPEG and then supports his conclusion with poorly reasoned or intentionally misleading nonsense scare tactics. He discusses the cost/benefit ratio in terms of JPEG or RAW files collected over a lifetime of shooting……and then assumes that total number as a cost to back up from day one. Assuming a linear progression, calculating a cloud backup cost that slowly increases in capacity over years or decades wouldn’t be hard to do. Heck, you could even do that analysis on a month-by-month basis with some fairly rudimentary formulas in Excel using a brute force approach.
So, he starts by talking about shooting 100,000 images over a career (conservative, so that’s something at least) and then saying the best way to back them up is on the cloud. That may be convenient, but anyone who wants to control their images and avoid general release to the entire world via the inevitable hack will just buy a few hard drives and institute a fairly straight forward backup plan. And hard drives get cheaper and better as time goes on, so the value proposition only improves over time.
He then goes on to say that using a lossless compression system for RAW files is basically useless and stupid. You’ll note that at the beginning he says this isn’t going to be yet another RAW vs. JPEG video. That lasted about seven minutes. Some more words come out of his face once again saying how dumb RAW is and how great compressed files (JPEG and now HEIF) are.
And the icing on the cake is going to the camera storage and using the most expensive SD cards available to compare costs. He then goes on to say the buffer will get extended by 2X with a file that is half the size, ignoring that only the cheapest cameras have any real JPEG buffer wall.
Honestly, Tony is moving towards Ken Rockwell’s side of the spectrum in terms of the extremely poor logic used to justify poor conclusions.
Not a Canon camera though.
