Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/03

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Subject: [Leica] DMR M8 workflows
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Fri Nov 3 20:36:01 2006
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I will need the image vault to be on the external HD's. I was hoping  
to leave them turned off while I did the original work on the files  
and then transfer them to the "deep" storage.
On 04/11/2006, at 15:29, Matt Powell wrote:

> On 11/3/06, Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>
>> So at the moment I thought:
>> 4. Rate images as a)junk to trash, b)record image never likely to
>> make a print bigger than 6 x 4 and c)"potential" images
>> 5. Throw out the a images, convert the b images to jpeg files and
>> keep the c images as RAW (but what kind of RAW I have yet to fully
>> understand)
>
> Aperture (and maybe Lightroom) will create an image vault that
> contains all of your RAW images, and you can set up a folder on
> another hard disk to hold a backup copy of this vault. I would keep
> all of the 'b' and 'c' files as RAWs in this vault - you never know
> when you'll go back and find something you wish you could print
> larger. Besides, converting to a reasonable JPG won't save you that
> much room over DNG/RAW.
>
> Anything you want to alter further in Photoshop is exported as a TIFF
> by Aperture/Lightroom. You would save (and backup) a final copy of
> this file (as a TIFF, again) - this is the one you'll go back to for
> printing down the road.
>
> -- 
> MP
> wooderson@gmail.com
>
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Replies: Reply from harrison at mcclary.net (Harrison McClary) ([Leica] DMR M8 workflows)
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Message from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Constantine Manos, Color, M8)
Message from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] DMR M8 workflows)
Message from wooderson at gmail.com (Matt Powell) ([Leica] DMR M8 workflows)