Keeping your old digital files - all of them

Bend Oregon.  Shot with my D70 camera in 2010.  I haven't looked at this image for over 15 years.

I have been organizing my digital images lately, saving all my 2025 stuff.  In doing so, I have also been perusing my archives for old photos, ones that I haven't worked on before.  This one (above) fit the bill for the blog I want to do today.

Keep your old files/images.  You may never need them, but having them allows you to access them should the desire or need arise.  Memory is cheap; you can buy a 6 or 8 TB hard drive for around $250.  Unless you shoot a lot of video, that is enough memory to hold hundreds of thousands of images.

Most of my images are in raw format, so I can open them anew and work with them using editors that far surpass the ones from days of old.  As well, my understanding of the workflow has improved and so I am also better at the adjustments.  

Over the years, I have upgraded my cameras, starting with my Fuji S1Pro (Nikon mount) and ending with where I am today (Z7ii).  I am hoping to upgrade again, probably a Z8, but am not sure.  The photo above was taken with my D70, a 6mp camera that was another level above the Fuji, which was 3 mp.  And 6 mp may be kind of small by today's standards, but it still delivers a very good image.

Can you tell if the above photo was taken with a modern sensor, something like 48 mp, 33 mp, 24 mp, or even 20 mp?  Not likely - unless you were to do some serious cropping or enlarging.  Old doesn't mean poor or useless.  Trust me, I'm "old", and I don't feel like either.

Thanks for reading.

Eric Svendsen     www.ericspix.com

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