Linary Loc: UK

With more and more megapixels with newer cameras now available, file sizes are getting bigger, and after a little post processing, file sizes can be huge. When it comes to storing these images, if your disc space is limited, you may be in a quandary as to what to do next.

If this applies to you, then the Tim Grey Newsletter goes someway to explaining the phenomena of exploding file sizes and drops a hint or two of how to cope with the issue.

I was unable to create a link, so I copied the the article in its entirety below.

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jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yes, larger files require larger drives, but I'm careful to delete anything I don't really have to keep. I shoot raw, process, and delete the raw. If a shot is special, I'll keep the original raw file.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Me personally, I'd just install a larger drive.

JennT Loc: South Central PA

I keep nothing ON my computer---that is to say, it has a 2.11T drive with 2T free---- images are kept on external hard drives and accessed when desired--- lots of space left over for photoshop work which CAN run into huge files

just a thought!

BebuLamar

If I can buy the camera that generates those huge files I can buy the drives to store them.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

Increasing file sizes have been an issue since before digital photography became mainstream. The first instance I can remember goes back to when Lotus 1-2-3 allowed for three page spreadsheets instead of the single page ones that Multiplan supported. That was about 1980. Then Windows was introduced. Then Windows started growing, along with other software.

Availability of more memory has led to bigger softeare, which has led to availability of more memory and faster processors, which has led to bigger software, which has led to...

As digital people now, we are just getting to ride the computer growth bus that has been running its route for at least the last 40 years (and really longer than that).

The good news is that prices have dropped correspondingly, making it not completely impossible to keep up. At least we don't still have to pay $2000 for 5 MB of disk space or $100 for 32kb of RAM.

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

Thanks, there was actually information in this article that was new to me re: PS.