Digital BW, The Print

The cloud and portable data use.. While one might have a kick ass system at
home , there is only ONE home. Everything else is somewhere else. You don't
know the reliability until you use it. It might be close to as good a
connection as home. The cloud is fine for those in connected areas but to
say, it's here? Well travel to uncertain destinations and you'll soon see
what you have to reinvent for traveling.  Does that workflow make sense to
you? For some it might be a great way to work, and yet others might find it
to be a big ol monkey wrench and go down the road swearing their *&5684&*^&^
off. 

 

Speed is an issue and so is your intended output and access. Do you already
own your own web site? Store ANY thing there? Some services are really just
a duplicate of you already pay for, have access to, and never use , because
the IT guy said it was too hard for you. 

 

I'd be much more concerned about your software not working because you
cannot ping home to Adobe than I'd worry about your HD crashing again.  No
software you are now looking at a brick.

 

Eric Neilsen

4101 Commerce Street, Suite 9

Dallas, TX 75226

214-827-8301

 

www.ericneilsenphotography.com

SKYPE ejprinter

 

From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jimbo
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 5:05 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] OT - Laptop and cloud image editing?

 

  

Hi Paul,
Constructively...this thing called the cloud is in it's early stages
presently.. Frankly I think it's kind of a fad thing in a way.. but their
are some honest benefits depending upon how you look at it.. At any rate
first they have no liability with your data if they break. Second the
concept of true security with ones work is still an issue.. Third I don't
know how large your working files are but mine are often quite large
typically so it's like watching paint dry uploading or downloading.. In
concept if you had a 2 TB drive that was your home back up.. and you moved
that to the cloud with typical connections it would a couple of days to
upload or retrieve the data the process both ways is very slow as compared
to what were used to. All that being said.. It is a form of back up but so
is just having another disk loaded up and off site. 
Many people are working off laptops today... I'm not but many do.. The
bigges issue is teh screen accuracy on most of them.. but most can run
anothe rmonitor that can be color managed.. I don't know how much data you
need to back up.. I have redundant back ups of all working files in house
and also use SSD's for a third BU that's off site.. (The price of these has
really come down to where it makes sense ...even 64GB flash drives are cost
effective today.. )
So how much data are we talking? 

jimbo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Paul 
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>  
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 2:55 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] OT - Laptop and cloud image editing?

With my main/desktop crashed, a weak laptop, and not such a great backup
routine, I wonder if laptops and commercial cloud back-up are at a place
where they can work for the large digital files full frame cameras produce,
as well as serious image editing and printing work.

I have a new hard disc that I'll probably just stuff into my existing Dell
box, but the interruption of my work that this crash has caused has
certainly gotten my attention.

I suppose there are 2 issues -- computer power and cloud backup -- that
probably need to be dealt with individually. 

I must say, it's been a very long time since I've had a hard disk crash
before retiring the computer for other reasons.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 

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