RAW converter options with PS CS

It's a lot faster to use a USB 2 card reader, about 3:30 for a 1 GB card.

With the Mark II we sometimes go thru 4 - 8 MB worth of CF cards
in a session

From: Brian Stirling

The whole storage thing is getting to be an issue

Yep

Looking forward to the 1D Mark II and possibly the
1DS Mark II I just hope the price of dual layer DVD burners and
media will become more reasonable.

Instead of DVDs you might look at external hard drives ... prices are getting
below a buck a gig and sometimes down to half that for the sales at Frys, say a
250 GB drive for $149 on sale. This will hold 25,000 1Ds RAW files or about
30,000 1D Mark IIs (at low ISO).

We use three externals with files backed up the same way on each one, keeping
one copy off-site at all times except for the day it gets updated. After each
trip we edit the RAW files (this is where Capture One workflow is nice, you
have a large preview of every image for better review), store them in a
RAW_archive directory, copy them to all three drives and make sure the total
file sizes are identical. The advantage is you can over-write these drives
easily and run disk checks, etc. I realize they will fail eventually but
there's no way all three can fail at once so we always have a copy and a
backup. Also, we can go back and delete earlier files if we get better shots
of the same thing later, something you can't do with DVDs or CDs. One drive is
about the size of a stack of 25 CDs ... and prices keep dropping every year,
can probably get terabyte drives in two years.

Just a suggestion ...

It's a lot faster to use a USB 2 card reader, about 3:30 for a 1 GB card.

With the Mark II we sometimes go thru 4 - 8 MB worth of CF cards
in a session

From: Brian Stirling

The whole storage thing is getting to be an issue

Yep

Looking forward to the 1D Mark II and possibly the
1DS Mark II I just hope the price of dual layer DVD burners and
media will become more reasonable.

Instead of DVDs you might look at external hard drives ... prices are getting
below a buck a gig and sometimes down to half that for the sales at Frys, say a
250 GB drive for $149 on sale. This will hold 25,000 1Ds RAW files or about
30,000 1D Mark IIs (at low ISO).

We use three externals with files backed up the same way on each one, keeping
one copy off-site at all times except for the day it gets updated. After each
trip we edit the RAW files (this is where Capture One workflow is nice, you
have a large preview of every image for better review), store them in a
RAW_archive directory, copy them to all three drives and make sure the total
file sizes are identical. The advantage is you can over-write these drives
easily and run disk checks, etc. I realize they will fail eventually but
there's no way all three can fail at once so we always have a copy and a
backup. Also, we can go back and delete earlier files if we get better shots
of the same thing later, something you can't do with DVDs or CDs. One drive is
about the size of a stack of 25 CDs ... and prices keep dropping every year,
can probably get terabyte drives in two years.

Just a suggestion ...