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Organizing Digital Camera Files for the Long Term
This page gives a brief introduction to digital camera file organization.
Many photographers use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to organize their files, while some use PhaseOne CaptureOne Pro and some use Aperture and so on. Often, these programs add overhead and complexitywhile providing no value or even negative value over a simpler approach. It all depends on the nature of one’s work.
No matter which software is used, these program all suffer from the same flaw: they conflate the issue of file organization with the metadata and search and raw conversions issues. It is possible to make a serious mess of the long-term organization of digital files by not attending to this basic consideration; make it explicit in your own mind, then the solution follows.
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- Optical aberrations: what they are, what they look like, and what to do about them.
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