That said, if you're doing 64 GB in a couple of hours, a little more practice with shot discipline will help you both in storage and in workflow time.
You must only shoot rocks and buildings. Shooting a thousand frames (roughly 32GB or more depending on your body) during a wedding / reception is entirely appropriate. The couple want just the right shots, and nobody, not even you, can see into the future to release the shutter exactly long enough preceding the perfect shot to account for shutter lag. Same thing holds for sports, or kids.
That's too many pictures.
Context?? Too many for what?
Then the DELETE key is your friend. Especially if you're doing that many shots. They can't ALL win the Pulitzer Price.
Nobody said they could. Culling shots takes time, and you're talking about someone's living here. Cautious pros get their data copied into at least two places ASAP.
To quote Ken Rockwell:
You just lost any credibility you might have otherwise had. Rockwell is a fucktard who asserts that we should all be shooting large format film and only landscapes/architecture (including what he believes to be ancient alien sites). He believes that shooting people is of no importance and warrants only a compact P&S. He also contradicts himself regularly.
Only show your very strongest images.
Nobody contests that, but it's a non-sequitor in this discussion.
Throw away most of what you shoot. I do.
It takes time to do that, and when your career is on the line with a wedding shoot, you don't blaze through it willy-nilly. And what do you do next month when the client comes back and wants something different, something that you hadn't originally selected?
Most of my photos are awful!
Sucks to be you. You aren't the OP.
Go through the few photos you save out of a roll
Note the anachronistic film mindset.
and then throw away all but the one strongest image.
No concept whatsoever of the realities of shooting a wedding.
Do you think I shoot a roll of film and get a roll loaded with the images you see in my galleries? Of course not. Most of what I shoot is crap.
Actually, *all* of what KR shoots is crap.
Ansel Adams said that if you can produce one strong image in a year that you are doing very well. Don't expect to turn out miracles every roll, or even every month. Ansel didn't, I don't, and I don't think anyone does.
Didn't shoot modern weddings, did he? Apples and oranges, mang.
Now once you've done this step, you're down to 3.2-6.4 GB of data, usually less. Then comes the lightroom/touchup workflow, which should be lossless (first part gets done on the raw images, then save out as TIFF for the final version that involves lossy transforms). End result? Storage needs double -- so now you need around 6.4GB of storage instead of 128GB of data.
... and in the meantime you're susceptible to catastrophic data loss.
If you're truly keeping every shot you ever expose
My eyes roll at your hyperbole. The OP made no such claim.
Time is money. Disk is cheap. Getting sued by a client isn't.
Once that is working...I'm looking to maybe set up a second mirrored one at my parent's house, in another state...and just keep them sync'ed.
That sounds rather more expensive to me than using Crashplan or (if you can tolerate their policies) Backblaze. How long until your parents tire of the the noise and power draw? Or of their connection being saturated all the time? What do you do when there's a hardware failure?
First, the FDA isn't some magic group that never gets anything wrong. They have approved devices, drugs and treatments that later was found to have significant life threatening problem.
And yet Nutrasweet was approved -- and remains on the market -- despite the data against it. Thanks a bunch, Rumsfeld.
I think a better question would be "Why does it NEED to be better?"
Because there are millions of humans on this planet with an apostrophe in their name, or two middle names. I currently have the former and have had the latter in the past. I *constantly* encounter broken software that can't handle either. In at least one case, a certain airline accepted the apostrophe when creating a FFM account, but not when booking, so I couldn't tie the two together. I frequently get snail mail where the apostrophe is replace by "&". I saw an endontist last week who couldn't bring up my insurance info because their software couldn't handle it.
That's why it needs to be better.
Agreed. My current position entails rotating on-call duty, Handling tickets off-hours is not expected, but handling emergencies is. No extra compensation - it's part of the job. But then, I have mad flexibility during business hours, which compensates. No slave-driving.
In a previous life we had a similar setup, then someone argued successfully that the requirement that we be within N minutes of the office and M of a keyboard from 5pm-9am weeknights and all day on the weekend was unreasonable without pay, and we started getting like $5/hour for oncall time -- 1990 dollars, pre-wireless.
I haven't seen it here, but you could pick up something like a dell optiplex 755 for dirt cheap on ebay, put a raid card in it, a couple 1tb hard drives, and put linux on it, and make shares using samba.
You did read the part where he wants to *not* have this be his full-time job, right? Let's count the ways in which the above are incompatible with that aim:
1) He'd be stuck with a Dell
2) He's a friggin *lawyer* and you want to trust his whole office to a cheap-ass *used* box of eBay?
2a) He's a laywer. This means he has at least a wife/partner and wants to leave the office occasionally
3) Figuring out the interface on a given RAID HBA. Since Dell uses LSI cards, that means delving into megacli, which clearly was written by deranged wombats
4) Picking a Linux distribution
5) Figuring out how to install 4)
6) Spending two weeks trying to set everything up on an OS that's new to him
7) Spending another two weeks starting over from scratch when he discovered that the anachronisms and desktop focus of Linux led him to an inappropriate configuration
8) Finding some way to monitor the HBA RAID volumes
That's exactly what we do at our IT shop
Something the OP doesn't have and doesn't want.
and our email is gmail, our web services are VPS servers at a host.
Unacceptable for a law office.
I looked into a home NAS some time ago and Synology by and far has the best reputation there, better than QNAP for sure. As as been noted here, the boxes are not opaque at all and open to customization.
>Now, of course, organized religion is a problem, particularly when accepted without question. Any time that you accept a ready-made philosophy from a powerful organization, you have to assume that the organization has designed that philosophy to protect its interests.
Sophistry. My ex's coven had a name, a hierarchy, structured meetings that were frequent and scheduled. There were like seven of them, hardly "powerful".
Max Kolbe's religion led him to save someone else's life at the cost of his own. Please explain how this is "a problem".
Perhaps other spreadsheet applications offer
1) The ability to size a spreadsheet as needed, ie. if I need 10 lines, don't put in 60,000 blanks without letting me delete them
or
2) Selection / cut / paste that works. Neither double-clicking to select a word nor triple-clicking to select an entire cell work in MS Excel from Office 2011. One has to click on a cell then move to the header area and click/drag to select. WTF?
In other words: the choice of C is the only sane choice. I know Miles Bader jokingly said "to piss you off",
First time I've ever had/. mention an ex-roommate.
When it comes down to it, both C++ and ObjC reek, the former via New Jersey and the latter via Brad Cox. And I do mean "reek" literally.
Agreed. My son has battered our iPhone 4's and his iPad, and all three have withstood the abuse to an amazing degree. The Nokia and Motorola phones I had before started falling apart on their own within a year while being pampered.
RIM contacted me about two weeks ago on Linkedin about a sysadmin-ish job. I wrote back asking if they'd be willing to offer an outrageous compensation package to lure me away from my stable job of 17 years to circle the drain with them.
They didn't respond.
Both my Boxee Box and my TV have native Facebook clients. We've never used them.
If I read correctly, the Nexus Q won't mount local media over the net. So here's a thing that costs >50% more than my Boxee Box and can't even do what I need? I'd be delighted to buy someone built domestically, but it has to be a useful product first.
"Entering text" != "education".
The real irony here is that Gates is supposed to be ASD here, but completely dismisses the massive utility of the iPad^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htablets for educating autistic kids (like mine).
Apple had sleeping working years before Dell did. Actually, that assumes that Dell finally did -- it never worked when I was stuck with one.
Said Dell also got dragged onto the floor more than once while Apple users enjoyed MagSafe power connections.
The ability to sync contacts and calendars alone justified getting my iPhone. Motorola couldn't be bothered.
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That said, if you're doing 64 GB in a couple of hours, a little more practice with shot discipline will help you both in storage and in workflow time.
You must only shoot rocks and buildings. Shooting a thousand frames (roughly 32GB or more depending on your body) during a wedding / reception is entirely appropriate. The couple want just the right shots, and nobody, not even you, can see into the future to release the shutter exactly long enough preceding the perfect shot to account for shutter lag. Same thing holds for sports, or kids.
That's too many pictures.
Context?? Too many for what?
Then the DELETE key is your friend. Especially if you're doing that many shots. They can't ALL win the Pulitzer Price.
Nobody said they could. Culling shots takes time, and you're talking about someone's living here. Cautious pros get their data copied into at least two places ASAP.
To quote Ken Rockwell:
You just lost any credibility you might have otherwise had. Rockwell is a fucktard who asserts that we should all be shooting large format film and only landscapes/architecture (including what he believes to be ancient alien sites). He believes that shooting people is of no importance and warrants only a compact P&S. He also contradicts himself regularly.
Only show your very strongest images.
Nobody contests that, but it's a non-sequitor in this discussion.
Throw away most of what you shoot. I do.
It takes time to do that, and when your career is on the line with a wedding shoot, you don't blaze through it willy-nilly. And what do you do next month when the client comes back and wants something different, something that you hadn't originally selected?
Most of my photos are awful!
Sucks to be you. You aren't the OP.
Go through the few photos you save out of a roll
Note the anachronistic film mindset.
and then throw away all but the one strongest image.
No concept whatsoever of the realities of shooting a wedding.
Do you think I shoot a roll of film and get a roll loaded with the images you see in my galleries? Of course not. Most of what I shoot is crap.
Actually, *all* of what KR shoots is crap.
Ansel Adams said that if you can produce one strong image in a year that you are doing very well. Don't expect to turn out miracles every roll, or even every month. Ansel didn't, I don't, and I don't think anyone does.
Didn't shoot modern weddings, did he? Apples and oranges, mang.
Now once you've done this step, you're down to 3.2-6.4 GB of data, usually less. Then comes the lightroom/touchup workflow, which should be lossless (first part gets done on the raw images, then save out as TIFF for the final version that involves lossy transforms). End result? Storage needs double -- so now you need around 6.4GB of storage instead of 128GB of data.
... and in the meantime you're susceptible to catastrophic data loss.
If you're truly keeping every shot you ever expose
My eyes roll at your hyperbole. The OP made no such claim. Time is money. Disk is cheap. Getting sued by a client isn't.
Once that is working...I'm looking to maybe set up a second mirrored one at my parent's house, in another state...and just keep them sync'ed.
That sounds rather more expensive to me than using Crashplan or (if you can tolerate their policies) Backblaze. How long until your parents tire of the the noise and power draw? Or of their connection being saturated all the time? What do you do when there's a hardware failure?
Uhh, he did say 8TB worth of data. Not
First, the FDA isn't some magic group that never gets anything wrong. They have approved devices, drugs and treatments that later was found to have significant life threatening problem.
And yet Nutrasweet was approved -- and remains on the market -- despite the data against it. Thanks a bunch, Rumsfeld.
I've lost count how many times I've walked into BestBuy holding a bundle of $20 bills only to be turned away because they don't stock something.
What bad thing would happen were you to visit amazon.com or half.com?
I think a better question would be "Why does it NEED to be better?"
Because there are millions of humans on this planet with an apostrophe in their name, or two middle names. I currently have the former and have had the latter in the past. I *constantly* encounter broken software that can't handle either. In at least one case, a certain airline accepted the apostrophe when creating a FFM account, but not when booking, so I couldn't tie the two together. I frequently get snail mail where the apostrophe is replace by "&". I saw an endontist last week who couldn't bring up my insurance info because their software couldn't handle it. That's why it needs to be better.
Linux is all about stupid anachronistic partitioning. How dare you suggest that it progress into the 1990's?
Thank you for making one of the few posts in this thread with a clue. I especially love the one referring to fvwm as a "GUI".
Really, it seems to be the only option.
What about the option of just buying a laptop?
Agreed. My current position entails rotating on-call duty, Handling tickets off-hours is not expected, but handling emergencies is. No extra compensation - it's part of the job. But then, I have mad flexibility during business hours, which compensates. No slave-driving. In a previous life we had a similar setup, then someone argued successfully that the requirement that we be within N minutes of the office and M of a keyboard from 5pm-9am weeknights and all day on the weekend was unreasonable without pay, and we started getting like $5/hour for oncall time -- 1990 dollars, pre-wireless.
I haven't seen it here, but you could pick up something like a dell optiplex 755 for dirt cheap on ebay, put a raid card in it, a couple 1tb hard drives, and put linux on it, and make shares using samba.
You did read the part where he wants to *not* have this be his full-time job, right? Let's count the ways in which the above are incompatible with that aim: 1) He'd be stuck with a Dell
2) He's a friggin *lawyer* and you want to trust his whole office to a cheap-ass *used* box of eBay?
2a) He's a laywer. This means he has at least a wife/partner and wants to leave the office occasionally
3) Figuring out the interface on a given RAID HBA. Since Dell uses LSI cards, that means delving into megacli, which clearly was written by deranged wombats
4) Picking a Linux distribution
5) Figuring out how to install 4)
6) Spending two weeks trying to set everything up on an OS that's new to him
7) Spending another two weeks starting over from scratch when he discovered that the anachronisms and desktop focus of Linux led him to an inappropriate configuration
8) Finding some way to monitor the HBA RAID volumes
That's exactly what we do at our IT shop
Something the OP doesn't have and doesn't want.
and our email is gmail, our web services are VPS servers at a host.
Unacceptable for a law office. I looked into a home NAS some time ago and Synology by and far has the best reputation there, better than QNAP for sure. As as been noted here, the boxes are not opaque at all and open to customization.
>Now, of course, organized religion is a problem, particularly when accepted without question. Any time that you accept a ready-made philosophy from a powerful organization, you have to assume that the organization has designed that philosophy to protect its interests.
Sophistry. My ex's coven had a name, a hierarchy, structured meetings that were frequent and scheduled. There were like seven of them, hardly "powerful". Max Kolbe's religion led him to save someone else's life at the cost of his own. Please explain how this is "a problem".
Perhaps other spreadsheet applications offer 1) The ability to size a spreadsheet as needed, ie. if I need 10 lines, don't put in 60,000 blanks without letting me delete them or 2) Selection / cut / paste that works. Neither double-clicking to select a word nor triple-clicking to select an entire cell work in MS Excel from Office 2011. One has to click on a cell then move to the header area and click/drag to select. WTF?
In other words: the choice of C is the only sane choice. I know Miles Bader jokingly said "to piss you off",
First time I've ever had /. mention an ex-roommate.
When it comes down to it, both C++ and ObjC reek, the former via New Jersey and the latter via Brad Cox. And I do mean "reek" literally.
My first thought as well
Agreed. My son has battered our iPhone 4's and his iPad, and all three have withstood the abuse to an amazing degree. The Nokia and Motorola phones I had before started falling apart on their own within a year while being pampered.
I came up with that idea about 10 years ago, figured nothing would ever come of it.
That plus his hypocritical smoking.
RIM contacted me about two weeks ago on Linkedin about a sysadmin-ish job. I wrote back asking if they'd be willing to offer an outrageous compensation package to lure me away from my stable job of 17 years to circle the drain with them. They didn't respond.
It's called a "changer".
Both my Boxee Box and my TV have native Facebook clients. We've never used them. If I read correctly, the Nexus Q won't mount local media over the net. So here's a thing that costs >50% more than my Boxee Box and can't even do what I need? I'd be delighted to buy someone built domestically, but it has to be a useful product first.
Python has little to brag about: o_max = [l for l in output.splitlines() if 'MaxCapacity' in l][0] b_max = float(o_max.rpartition('=')[-1].strip())
Probably not many of you encountered this one back in the mid-80's: MINCE Is Not Complete EMACS and brother, it sure wasn't.
"Entering text" != "education". The real irony here is that Gates is supposed to be ASD here, but completely dismisses the massive utility of the iPad^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htablets for educating autistic kids (like mine).
Clearly you've never priced electronics there.
Apple had sleeping working years before Dell did. Actually, that assumes that Dell finally did -- it never worked when I was stuck with one. Said Dell also got dragged onto the floor more than once while Apple users enjoyed MagSafe power connections. The ability to sync contacts and calendars alone justified getting my iPhone. Motorola couldn't be bothered.
The whole interbreeding thing wrt species is distinctly flawed. Heck, snakes hybridize across *genera*.