I had a first time experience recently. My wife and I recently stayed at the Fairmont Princess hotel in Scottsdale, AZ. We were there about 12 days. On the second to last day I was stopped by hotel security and told I was not allowed to have “professional cameras” on property. I sad a Sony a9 with a 200-600 mm lens. The property is beautiful with lots of wildlife to shoot. I’ve stayed there 4 or 5 times in the past with no problems. Security told me only cell phones were allowed.
I went and talked to a manager and was told that policy has been in effect for about 10 years. The manager further stated that no pro camera policies are in effect at almost all hotels. Something to do with social media and private property. Maybe they think I’m going to take some sort of voyeur shots. I don’t know. All the staff at the hotel were unaware of the policy and were dumbfounded when I told them what I was told. Never saw it expressed on their website either.
Any one else ever run into this issue?

I am sorry, but any company or organization that cannot deal with a file that is "too" large is not one I want to go through the hassle of working with. Tell them to enter the 21st century and hire a competent media person. I mean really!!!! What is with this maximum size thing????? It is limiting their available input. It should be the quality of the image not the maximum size. I can sort of understand a minimum size (ok not really) if they want to make sure they have enough to work with. But a MAX??????? That is just stupid.

The fault lies with the guy tucked away in the basement who is supposed to be keeping the support unit's computers up to date.

The support people are not trained in the use of the cameras. They are trained to look to the terminal in front of them for the answers.

The fact that the guy in the basement didn't updated the support unit's computers is enough for all of us to switch brands. After all, we now know that, Nikon doesn't understand it's own cameras?



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Ugh - lots of anecdotes here that do not address the main issue.

The issue is longevity of storage media - and the home burned optical disks are simply not good for that. Period. Thos of you who have not lost data have been lucky, but that doesn't change the science.

Cloud is nifty, so long as you trust the provider and have a fast connection to the interwebs. In the event of a catastrophe (say, a house fire that destroys everything) then downloading a terabyte of data from the cloud can take a minute or two. In addition, beware the possibility that the cloud provider might some day take it upon itself to deny images that it deems "bad" - give the amount of censorship we have already been seeing on the web, this is not an unlikely scenario. So those photos of, say, antique firearms you so love might be deemed "evil" and thus erased.

Having accessible offsite redundant storage is the best way to ensure backups. This takes work, and a lot of folks are just too lazy to follow through with a procedure where every week or two, say, another disk (or set) is rotated into the queue and the backup is made to that, while its predecessor is moved to an offsite location (a bank vault, grandmas house, whatever). Hard drives (and, again, SSDs) do fail - and often at the most inopportune time - that can ruin your whole day. But at least with a backup no more than a week old you are mostly covered. Also, rotating a set of drives allows for the updating of interfaces where necessary - if that iMac 2500 or Inspiron 10,000 has the new and improved USB 600 interface, then you will have wanted to transfer the data to disks that are compatible with the new regime.

Just attempting to inject some reality into this - not drone on about anecdotal evidence which basically is useless for the purpose of this discussion.

My kids had "borrowed" my 8" discs to show them off.
I DID have some hard sectored 5.25"s
And a bunch of "regular" ones.
A couple guys here had a vintage computer thang going, and
I dropped off some 3.5"s. SDs and HDs. And the clipper to make the HDs.
I've got a few shoeboxes full of old CDs and DVDs that I intend to copy on to my WD 12tb.
Actually, boot boxes. And I have big feet. Little kids hide in these.
I've got Firewire ports. USB 1s, 2s, 3s- and I'm holding out on Thunderbolts.
SWMBO bought me some last 19999 year discs. Beetched about the money. NO! My DVDs were waay cheaper.
Then I had to buy the burner. Anybody here have a reader for these?
OTOH ..
I have photos from 60 effen years ago that are still good to look at.
So maaaaybe I need a decent 1999 year printer.
And some more boots ...