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Broncolor lights up my world.
Docking station allows you to use interior HDD's which are usually cheaper than a External HDD.
Just one - and I haven't got one anyway - is that you can put different drives in it.
Am(wondering if I'll get one?).
CC, Image editing OK.
Ok that clears that up.....next question.........where do you buy them as I have been to a couple of big places now and they don't sell them..........most recently JB HiFi where the sales guy looked at me as if I came from another planet when I asked about the docking station set up and basically said why would you do that when you can just buy an external hard drive.......they had 1 TB up to 4 TB ones all USB 3 (he probably just wanted to get a sale right there and then!) The WD 1TB were $99. Is this substantially more expensive than the internal type you put in a docking station?
Cheers Karen
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Bazinga!
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/...station&spos=3
Never look for pc parts from big names as they only do pre-packaged stuff and small ranges at that. Static ice is a good starting point if you know what you want.
Or any smaller/friendlier/neighbourhood computer store.
Even in the "hamlet" of Mudgee, I have two to choose from - as instanced last week when there.
m.
I do all my PC parts with
http://Umart.com.au
They deliver to regional areas too. NB they do charge a 3% surcharge for Credit Card payment and have a 10% Restocking fee for wrong items ordered.
BUT, they've always had what I want in stock ready to go. And at a decent price point too!
Greg Bartle,
I have a Pentax and I'm not afraid to use it.
Pentax K5
Sigma 10-20 | Tamron 17-50 F:2.8 | Sigma 50 F:1.4 | Sigma 70-200 F:2.8 Plus a bunch of Ye Olde lenses
Would you like to see more?
http://flickr.com/photosbygreg
Karen, I build my own computers and purchase ALL my parts from Techbuy (www.techbuy.com.au) in Sydney, excellent service and advice if you require it. Not the absolute cheapest in the game but a huge range to choose from.
Be wary of your "friendly" neighborhood computer guy. Many are terrific but just as many only THINK they are computer tecs and they all add a premium to stock. If you go to a local bloke make sure its on the recommendation of a trusted friend.
Geoff Portbury owns,
EOS 60D and a couple of lenses.
I use 2 x 1T Western Digital external drives connected via USB for all my photo work, one is working drive and the other is backup. Purchased from ebay for about $130 each in 2012 (from memory).I was very glad of it when the iMac HD crashed due to a power outage while I was using it 2 weeks ago. As it turned out, 95% was recoverable, but I was able to go on working on my photos seamlessly on the laptop.
Odille
“Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky”
My Blog | Canon 1DsMkII | 60D | Tokina 20-35mm f/2.8 AF AT-X PRO | EF50mm f/1.8| Sigma 150-500mm F5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM | Fujifilm X-T1 & X-M1 | Fujinon XC 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OIS | Fujinon XC 50-230mm F3.5-5.6 OIS | Fujinon XF 18-55mm F2.8-4R LM OIS | tripods, flashes, filters etc ||
I would just add one comment on the deleting issue. As Rick has said, storage is now relatively cheap. Conversely, 'deleting is forever'. The classic instance of why I never delete anything permanently, except a totally blown out blank white screen, is the Monika Lewinsky/Bill Clinton saga. Dirck Halstead won the Eisenstadt Award for magazine photography with a picture of them that he had almost forgotten from a shoot years before, but had not deleted - when the story broke, he was first to the market with a picture... The only other picture of them at the time was by an amateur - and he ended up on the cover of Newsweek... In addition, your processing skills change with time, and revisiting previous efforts can be rewarding. So, given the time and effort involved in assessing and choosing, I tend to delete only the most egregiously out of focus or wildly over-exposed crap - everything else is simply stored. Just a thought.
On the technicalities, just like Odille, I load all pictures to external drives - LR is set up to save to 2 different drives, so it is painless - nothing goes on the internal HDD, as photos are just too big. Drives are replaced when full, and one of the 2 goes to a bank vault - beware feeling comfortable with your backup solution if it is all 'in da house'. One fire or flood will upset that apple cart.