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A comment on Ask HN: What is the “digital size” of your life, and what goes in?.

Re:Ask HN: What is the “digital size” of your life, and what... by BlameKaneda on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @08:18AM (#30918031)
I save most of the RAW image files of my photos, and with each RAW file being anywhere from 20-40mb I'd estimate the size of my hard drive to be anywhere from 40-80gb. I also duplicated the RAW files onto a second hard drive, but I have yet to move 98% of them into cloud storage.

Long story short, editing a RAW image file gives me much greater control versus editing a JPG or PNG, in which I can fine-tune the mids, shadows, colors, and more. I've periodically gone through and removed the RAW files that I know I'll never work with (i.e. blurry ones), but I ought to be doing it more often.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format

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Re:Ask HN: What is the “digital size” of your life, and what... by mceachen on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @12:31PM (#30921116)
Something that you might want to check out: many DSLRs embed full size JPEGs in metadata headers that you can quickly extract with something like exiftool. I'd always taken RAW+JPG, but when I discovered this (when trying to find optimizations for generating preview images from raw files for PhotoStructure), I switched to just RAW.
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