Re:Tarsnap price cut
by jmathai on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @07:26PM
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The bill would keep going up, yes. But that's the nature of any growing collection - even if you're using a drobo at home.
The only hope is that cloud storage goes down over those same 10 years at a rate which makes it continually affordable. But it won't always be a fixed cost since the number of photos keeps going up.
The RAW -> JPEG conversion is done using ufraw [1]. We originally tried extracting the thumbnails so the JPEGs would use conversion settings from the camera but most of the thumbnails are too small to do anything useful with.
Re:Tarsnap price cut
by callmeed on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @09:46PM
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That also assumes we've reached "peak megapixel" ... it seems to have plateaued recently but I'm not convinced a RAW file in 5 years will be about the same size as now.
The only hope is that cloud storage goes down over those same 10 years at a rate which makes it continually affordable. But it won't always be a fixed cost since the number of photos keeps going up.
The RAW -> JPEG conversion is done using ufraw [1]. We originally tried extracting the thumbnails so the JPEGs would use conversion settings from the camera but most of the thumbnails are too small to do anything useful with.
[1] http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/