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Photo station essentials
Alan Carroll, Photographer
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Sheridan | WY | USA | Posted: 8:35 PM on 04.10.06 |
->> Hi everyone,
I'm in the wonderful position to outfit the photo desk (hardware/software) at my new job and could use some suggestions. I've never had the chance to get everything at once before, and a lot of stuff has come out that I've never been able to use before.
I'll be working with a G5 workstation that'll be used for graphics/layout also. We'll be using Creative Suite CS2 as our primary software.
The photo desk will be handling images from (up to) six stringers, all using Canon 20D cameras. I would like to work with RAW files and have the ability to rescue bad disks... so I need a good workflow solution and a good emergency recovery set up.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Alan |
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Chris Large, Photographer
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Okotoks | Alberta | Canada | Posted: 8:52 PM on 04.10.06 |
->> PhotoMechanic....period......ingest everything into your main hardrive and a secondary external. Everything else after that is open for discussion and options as far as workflow, layouts etc. but your first & main things is to get the images, view them and sort them....and there is nothing as fast, as versatile and dependable as PM.....and no I don't work for them.
Thats about it
Chris |
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Neil Turner, Photographer
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London | UK | United Kingdom | Posted: 1:03 PM on 04.11.06 |
->> I asked a similar question to this a few days ago. My department is in a similar situation. Due to a change of ownership and the need to arrange our own independent system for hnadling both live images and a medium sized archive for three titles here in London I am also keen to know about photo desks anywhere in the world running "state of the art" systems.
The big hope is that someone has the ultimate system and that I can bring one of our IT installations team over there and see the system in action. A few thousand spent on air fares and hotels sure beats buying (another) turkey system unseen.
We have around 75,000 images to transfer immediately and another 100,000 to add whenever we get the budget and are happy with what we have bought. We also get about 5,000 images per week coming in, of which we keep about 20% on average. The system needs to be supportable, server based and we would prefer a cross platform capability.
Any ideas? We are looking at a Photo Mechanic/ Photoshop CS2/ Extensis Portfolio system based on our own research but there has to be other options.
Neil. |
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David Wang, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Philadelphia | PA | USA | Posted: 5:30 PM on 04.11.06 |
->> We start off on Photomechanic, leaving copies of all photos on one of four G5s, caption, and then immediately copy onto our servers. Editing is done on Photoshop, and layout is done on Quark, which we really hate.
Every couple of weeks, we wipe the G5s' harddrives, as well as perform addition backups of our archive by burning multiple copies of the new batch of photos from the past weeks onto DVD. Cumulus serves as our catalog.
We discussed setting up a new harddrive server that will allow immediate access to our database without having to refer to the DVDs on file, but felt that such a route wasn't worth the trouble of constantly upgrading all the hardware.
To give you an idea, we have no less than 100,000 digital images from the past five years in our archives, and we have yet to digitally catalog a fifth of our film archives. |
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Alan Carroll, Photographer
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Sheridan | WY | USA | Posted: 2:25 PM on 04.13.06 |
->> Thanks everyone. Is someone using Bibble to ingest photos? I've been using Photo Mechanic at my current paper, but the version we have won't handle RAW files.
What about photo rescue software?
Alan |
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