The Delete Button

[aam1234]

What's your relation with the delete button?

Personally, there are two categories that define the relationship :lol:

Category 1) Family & Friends: Basically, the hand doesn't obey orders from the brain to delete photos of those people.

Category 2) Everything else: The hand is too happy to hit the delete button (that tells you the quality of my photos :oops: )

How about you, what's your relation with that button?


Edit: The delete button in the PC not the camera.

[PacAce]

I hardly ever use the delete button except to delete some test shots I just got done shooting. Ordinarily I'd use the Format option to wipe the card clean but if there are images I still want to keep on the card, I'll use the delete button to get rid of the test shots.

[jaypie77]

When I shot film, I never "deleted" anything - I would simply keep the best photos seperately from the rest of the crap. Then, with DSLR, I kept all the shots, except for obvious crap like OOF, not-in-frame, really wrong exposure, etc... A few months ago I ran out of space on my 80 GB photos hard drive and went into a deleting frenzy and cut out more than 75%.

Now I find that there is something truly liberating about deleting a lot of pics and having a handful of winners left.

As for in-camera, I don't delete, I have big cards.

[Moppie]

I occasionaly delete in camera if I retake a photo that didn't work first time.
But it has to be pretty clearly wrong on the LCD, and its usualy because Im running out of space.

On my HDD, I don't think Iv deleted anything, but Im rapidly running out of space, I might only have a small camera, but Im useing it often enough that my small HDD is simply not big enough.
If I had a DSLR I would be screwed for space.