RAW vs JPG

[peterb666]

24 G's of space on a D90 should equate to approximately 1000 photos(give or take).

I get over 1000 raw images on the 16gb card in my D90.

[crazymorton]

don't know if this has been said, quite a big thread i'm working through it, but for OS travel photo back up i'd grab a dropbox account, $9.99 p/mth for 50gb, or $20 p/mth for 100gb. then upload each day.
i use the basic free version and it's great but am going to grab one of the above next trip and transfer from my iPad. after all most countries have better interwebs speeds than us so should be easy.

[arthurking83]

don't know if this has been said, quite a big thread i'm working through it, but for OS travel photo back up i'd grab a dropbox account, $9.99 p/mth for 50gb, or $20 p/mth for 100gb. then upload each day.
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This sounds like data storage nirvana in an ideal world, but if on average you capture something like 8Gb of raw files per day, the probability that you will upload all that data in a day is extremely unlikely.
The upload speeds will be too slow for people that shoot heavily.
Given that an average raw file from a modern camera is approx 20-30Mb(and increasing with each new generation), if you shoot only 10 images this is 200-300Mb and that is about as much upload capacity you could hope to manage in a full days upload session.

[ViPeR101]

I also prefer to us RAW as it gives me greater control over the image, and I suppose I can create a jpeg if I want, can not go back the other way.