I was reading through the 1200 items in my RSS feeds that have piled up over the last couple days and came across this site.
Now glancing through the top part where it lists “Value added service to offer your clients”, “New revenue opportunities” and such you can get a good idea that this site is targeting professional photographers. And not just any pro’s, it’s targeting wedding photographers.
Then they say 30GB is room enough for 15,000* images.
Based upon standard jpeg file size of 2MB
Say WHAT? 2MB jpegs? My camera doesn’t even make 2mb jpegs. The files I use when printing are going to be jpg’s sized to print at highest quality. I would have started out with RAW, converted to TIFF with ACDSee or Bibble Pro and then done all the editing as a PSD file in Photoshop. JPG wouldn’t even enter into anything until the final print that I send to the lab. The smallest 8×10″ prints I sent off had filesizes at almost 3MB. If I’m taking wedding photos I want to be able to print larger than 8×10″.
Furthermore, if I take 3000 pictures at a wedding covered by two photographers, I’m not going to retouch all 3k of them and come up with finished jpgs. I’ll batch process them for proofs and then retouch only the ones that are selected to be purchased. This place needs to figure on storage for 15-20MB raw files.
