how to store originals?

[stefG5]

im soon going home from spending 3 months of shooting here in south east asia, with about 5GB of foto's, all JPEG max resolution super fine from a G5.

i would like to hear people's opinions about what is the best way to store the originals (or digital negatives), from which i will start post processing.

Keeping in mind that i may be selling foto's to stock agencies, would it be a good idea to convert them all to TIFF upon getting home (batch process in PS Elements) and start all post processing work from there on?

Ive also learned about Genuine Fractals software which increases image size upto 600% without degradation - sometimes stock agencies require big sizes for submission

http://www.lizardtech.com/solutions/gf/

I would assume that for doing such work on the foto's, it would be better to work in TIFF format?

I also found the link below intresting

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography-guide.asp#3

thanks for some personal tips and tricks
stef

[fubarsportG13]

from what ive read and was told hopifully you have a cd burner if you dont get one. Because once you download all you pix to your harddrive back them up to a disc. IF you ever had you drive crash you still have a backup. hope that helps some

[jimtfoto]

My wife and I took two trips to Florida last year. The first in May, when we both were shooting film (we're staunch Canon users). Storage was obviously not a problem then. We shot about 30 rolls of film in six days and didn't process until our return. By the second trip, things had changed - I was carrying the 10D and my wife the 300D. For this trip, I took along my laptop and a Flashtrax 30G digital wallet. Each day after shooting, I downloaded to the laptop and later burned to DVD. We filled four DVDs, containing roughly 3,000 images, all JPEG. Actually made two copies of each DVD as well as keeping files on the laptop until we got home downloaded to one of our desktop units. After that, I catalogued all themes, and burned even more DVDs. If you have access to a DVD burner, use it! And make a couple of backup copies. We shoot almost every weekend and burned two CDs from each project, then fill up a couple of DVDs when we've reached the point where we can fill one.

[PhotosGuy]

CDs: I make 2 copies & store one set away from home.

[spaceman]

What would be the better format regarding storage, CD-R or DVD? Thanks.

[Ikinaa]

What would be the better format regarding storage, CD-R or DVD? Thanks.

a CD-R lost = 700 Meg of pictures lost
a DVD lost = 4.7 GB of pictures lost

but seriously, I guess if you take brand CD-Rs or DVDs you shouldn't have too much problems.
It all depends on the number of pictures you want to store also.

I never rely on one CD (actually I'm making CDs from my pics)
I have normally three copies on CD with three different brands (TDK, Philips and Verbatim, never had problems with any of the three), stored at least at two different places... + the copy on my harddisk on my PC