14-bit vs 16-bit Raw Bit Depth

That is amazing! What an array using 4TB SSD, which are getting cheaper and faster.

Too much for me and most of us, but amazing nonetheless.

fcracer said:

I’m surprised you only have 5.5TB. I’m ruthless in culling and I’m at >8TB.

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Aside from family photographs taken on digital of which I've kept all, from others taken on digital on nearly 100 digital cameras I've only kept those I feel I'd be happy to display in a gallery, around 170 could be less, also kept some Foveon SD9 DP1.

Of the thousands I've culled I can't even recall any of them.

SeeingSomeThingsMissingMany said:

fcracer said:

I’m surprised you only have 5.5TB. I’m ruthless in culling and I’m at >8TB.

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Aside from family photographs taken on digital of which I've kept all, from others taken on digital on nearly 100 digital cameras I've only kept those I feel I'd be happy to display in a gallery, around 170 could be less, also kept some Foveon SD9 DP1.

Of the thousands I've culled I can't even recall any of them.

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You need to be more like me and be willing to hang onto mediocre images. They make up 95% of my catalog.

I have a top-end gaming rig that I'm afraid would melt if I instructed it to delete thousands of mediocre to bad high-res GFX raw files.... The heat and computational power from such a demanding task would melt down even Jim's powerful server and huge array of 4TB SSDs.

Some tasks are better left to future generations. But to delete them, they would first have to figure out how to get into LR and look at them, and that will never happen.

Greg7579 said:

You need to be more like me.

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I like the bald head. I just shaved mine this morning. I was going to keep going down the body with the razor like the young guys all do these days, but I stopped at lower-neck level.

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SeeingSomeThingsMissingMany said:

fcracer said:

I’m surprised you only have 5.5TB. I’m ruthless in culling and I’m at >8TB.

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Aside from family photographs taken on digital of which I've kept all, from others taken on digital on nearly 100 digital cameras I've only kept those I feel I'd be happy to display in a gallery, around 170 could be less, also kept some Foveon SD9 DP1.

Of the thousands I've culled I can't even recall any of them.

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Here’s the weird thing, when I look at images from 50 years ago, the ones I enjoy most of my parents are those that are “mundane” and show everyday life. I like the non-posed images that show reality; none of those would be gallery worthy, but somehow I think they’re better than the perfectly composed images. So that’s how I ended up with 8TB

fcracer said:

SeeingSomeThingsMissingMany said:

fcracer said:

I’m surprised you only have 5.5TB. I’m ruthless in culling and I’m at >8TB.

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Aside from family photographs taken on digital of which I've kept all, from others taken on digital on nearly 100 digital cameras I've only kept those I feel I'd be happy to display in a gallery, around 170 could be less, also kept some Foveon SD9 DP1.

Of the thousands I've culled I can't even recall any of them.

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Here’s the weird thing, when I look at images from 50 years ago, the ones I enjoy most of my parents are those that are “mundane” and show everyday life. I like the non-posed images that show reality; none of those would be gallery worthy, but somehow I think they’re better than the perfectly composed images. So that’s how I ended up with 8TB

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That is great for family, and I feel the same way about the rare candid shots of my dead parents. Images were much more rare 50 years ago. We cherish the ones that have survived of family.

But no one else would feel that way on most of them if they saw them and didn't know anyone in the shot.

Greg7579 said:

You need to be more like me and be willing to hang onto mediocre images. They make up 95% of my catalog.

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I don't think your images are mediocre at all. They mean something to you that's so important.

I looked through my folders realised I kept my photographs from Paralympics 2012 London. They mean something to me.

Greg7579 said:

Images were much more rare 50 years ago. We cherish the ones that have survived of family.

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I haven't uploaded anywhere a single photo of my family because I cherish them protect them this way. Only with close chums companions I have shared some photos in person from printed 6x4 photos stored in those mom and pop family photo albums.

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Photography after all is interplay of light alongside perspective.

SeeingSomeThingsMissingMany said:

Aside from family photographs taken on digital of which I've kept all

fcracer wrote:

Here’s the weird thing, when I look at images from 50 years ago, the ones I enjoy most of my parents are those that are “mundane” and show everyday life. I like the non-posed images that show reality; none of those would be gallery worthy, but somehow I think they’re better than the perfectly composed images. So that’s how I ended up with 8TB

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If there was a fire and I had to choose I would in a heartbeat choose my family photos all just snapshots. I would ditch in a heartbeat my so called "gallery" photographs which I hadn't even looked at in 4 years until yesterday.

I feel we are ever so fortunate to photograph video our family so easily nowadays to be able to relive those times moments.

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Photography after all is interplay of light alongside perspective.