anyway, I hope this whole discussion has taught some of us [wannabe's] the cons of commercial work.
Achal
what strategies are people using to back up their work? it seems, especially with digital, there must be many creative ways to lower the risk of the loss of images.
I know lately, when I do a shoot, I upload the images to my laptop PC, back it up to an external hard drive I bring with me, and if time permits, burn a backup CD when possible before erasing the images from the card.
I'm using a hi speed USB card reader, so that I can upload images to PC while I keep shooting with a second card in the camera.
I used to erase the cards once I backed them up
but I've gone to 1 gig hi speed cards so that
I'm generally not needing to delete images from the card anyway,
being able to store quite a few even at 8 megapixels. I think I got almost 1000 images on my last 3 hour shoot this way, all backed up every 20 minutes or so.
on the other hand, I suppose if the studio burned down, or was thoroughly robbed,
I'd lose the PC, backup drive and the CDs and the cards.
So having some external storage is the next thing I need to figure out.
maybe a safe deposit box for digital media? are people using any online
storage for this?
thanks, mark
