That brings my total library down to 11,112 photos checking in at 8 GB of space (13 movies are also in iPhoto, though I have more from my digicam that I took before iPhoto supported movies and have not yet added into my library). After I was mostly satifisifed, I used iPhoto to burn the duplicates to CD and then deleted them off of my hard disk. I created a new iPhoto Smart Album that displayed only photos with that comment and then went through with a Finder window open to “spot check” to make sure Duplicate Annihilator had indeed only marked photos I could manually find a duplicate of. After letting it go through my album for a little over two hours, it returned 1580 photos that were duplicates, marking each one as such in the photo's comment area. The program can do a number of checks to find duplicates, however I stuck with the default MD5 checksum method, which seemed pretty safe. While I hated to pay $7.95 for a program that hopefully I'll only need to use once (although I may need to do so again - somehow I managed to bypass iPhoto's duplicate protection and end up with duplicates even on photos taken after I started using iPhoto), I bit the bullet. Now, you're thinking, “seriously, Tim, what's so hard about finding a few duplicates and removing them?” Not much, if you're talking one trip's worth - although even that took a long time - but it is a major project when you have just short of 12,700 photos in your iPhoto library.Įnter Duplicate Annihilator. Unfortunately, I had been rather unorganized in this respect previously, and I ended up with a bunch of duplicates and not enough time to manually pick them all out. After a few months, I embarked on copying thousands of photos from the past few years and putting them into the program. Help me raise $100 (or more) for the Huckabee campaign by giving a Buck for Huck here.īack in May of 2004, when I decided it was time to bail out of my messed up Fedora Core desktop and ended up landing in Mac OS X 10.3, I started playing around with iPhoto. All have their good qualities that help getting the most - and best - pictures possible. Right now, I'm dividing my shooting between the Canon, my Sony Cyber-shot H1 (superzoom) and my Apple iPhone (not the best, but I always have it with me). Question What kind of camera do you “shoot” with? Post your answer below, if you'd like. I decided when looking at the A700 that the Canon EOS 40D edged it out by a bit due to its better noise control and faster speed (and I've been very happy with my decision), but it's clear Canon and Nikon have some major competition coming from Sony, so do give them a look if you're shopping for a camera. When I was trying to decide which DSLR system to jump into last year, I had a really hard time resisting Sony's α (alpha) line. What a nifty sounding live view AF system - really, you should check these guys out. Both of them sound almost more exciting than the A700, despite the fact that they are in a lower part of Sony's product line. I've been predicting as much since they first released the A100 a couple of years ago, but if you are in the market for an SLR, check out the really impressive looking new A300 and A350. Wow, Sony is really getting serious with their α (alpha) line of Digital SLRs. What a marvelous era it is to be a shutterbug! That's with the photos backed up even! Remember how much double prints used to cost?Ī penny per shot, camera wear and tear included, and almost all of that very small cost is from the cost of storing the photos. Assuming my camera lasts just 100,000 shutter cycles with me saving every image in an approximately 10mb Raw file that is then stored on my primary hard disk and an external backup drive (courtesy of Time Machine), I figured the total cost of taking and storing photos comes out to just over a penny a shot. I've been taking most of my shots as of late in Raw so that I can submit them to a stock photography seller who said he would try to sell them for me. Now, it hardly costs anything to take pictures. I have a jar of old film that never was developed because of the cost of developing 35mm or APS film (especially the latter). It is amazing to think just how different things are now. I was talking to a friend who spent years as a film photographer and he remarked what a milestone it was to pass 5,000 photos on a camera back in the film era. In all, iPhoto catalogues 43,715 photos and 276 movies for me. Even my iPhone has taken 305 pictures during its last year of service. I made the jump to a Canon DSLR about six months ago, and my EOS 40D has now served up 6,400 images of its own. My last camera, a Sony DSC-H1 12x superzoom, has taken well over 23,000 pictures in the last two years or so that I've owned it.
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