Re: [opensuse] Re: Sizing ext4 partitions OT RAW photos

Am 19.02.2015 um 19:51 schrieb John Andersen:

On February 19, 2015 10:34:15 AM PST, Anton Aylward wrote:

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On 02/19/2015 10:51 AM, Joe Zappa wrote:

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Bingo. Anyone who has worked with done their own enlargements in a darkroom with film would consider deleting RAW files and keeping JPGs to be as foolish as burning your negatives, while keeping the small contact prints from a proff sheet.

That is a very goo way of putting it.

The RAW files contain 12, 14, sometimes more, bit of information, whereas JPEGs only contain 8 bits. There is more metadata and what amounts to 'phase' information in RAW files. It much easier to do things like white balance, colour correction, when you have more bits to work with :-)

Regardless, well over 80% of the shots taken will never see the light of day, and you will write them to disk and view them once and never again look at them.

This is definitively not true. It is very well possible-and often the case - that with time your taste and/or your goals change. When you look at your images years later you will take another selection. And then your are happy when you can go back to the original RAW or negative or slide and you will be deadly frustrated when you don't have them anymore. In my early photo times I used to keep only the slides and negatives of "good" images. I deeply regretted abut that, many times.

Unless you fancy yourself the second coming of Ansel Adams (a hubris all too common among amateurs), there is seldom a need to retain the RAW image format.

You don't need great goals to love quality work. And if it is just for you yourself, you might love to get the best out of your images. If you stick with the jpg's produced in your camera to the taste of the cameras software developers you'd better search the web and stop taking photos at all.

Unless you do it professionally you are fooling yourself. Which of course is your right. But professionals wouldn't be obsessing over inodes. They'd just get on with the job.

Many fantastic images are taken by amateurs, often, very often, much better images than a lot of crap produced by professionals. Doing something with love (!) and dedication, trying to achieve the best possible result is very healthy and satisfying: the very contrary of somebody fooling himself. Trying to find the best solution for digital negatives is just as reasonable as getting information about the best archival solutions to store negatives without destroying them with time. While searching for an optimal solution one sometimes searches in a direction that in the end might not be useful. Maybe inodes are not that important, no idea. I myself am more worried about the proprietary formats of RAW files and the fear that in some years there will be no more software available to open them. Your statements seem to me just as if you'd ask for the best car fuel and I'd tell you, that it's stupid to have a car. Even if I am right, it's not helpful for your search. Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona http://www.daniel-bauer.com room in Barcelona: https://www.airbnb.es/rooms/2416137 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org