Monthly Archives: November 2010

Your Digital Legacy – Part 5. Storage and Backup.

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Bob Shaw

For storage I have based mine on popular American commercial photographer Chase Jarvis’s solution. See http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/06/workflow-and-backup-for-photo-video/ Chase uses Apple Xserve servers connected to a bank of Fibre Channel Hard Drives and TimeMachine to automatically backup, along with an off site … Continue reading →

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Your Digital Legacy – Part 4. Computers – Get a Mac

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Bob Shaw

Your image is just a data file, or a collection of zeroes and ones called BITS (BInary digiTS) of information stored in a computer memory. For a modern digital SLR camera shooting a 20Megapixel (20M) image there can be 240 … Continue reading →

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Your Digital Legacy – Part 3. File Numbering

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Bob Shaw

When I bought my first Canon digital camera in 2005 it was very disappointing. I used it a few times and went back to film. The camera gradually passed from person to person and became the tool for eBay snaps … Continue reading →

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Your Digital Legacy – Part 2. Catalogues

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Bob Shaw

At the mere mention of an embarrassing moment a mother can disappear into a room and emerge within two minutes with a fifty-year-old photo of Johnny in the bath aged 3. Aunt Mary has even written on the back in … Continue reading →

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