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It's been about 3 months since I got a DSLR. I have never deleted any images, and just looked at my save folder. It is 75 GB! And I'm down to under 10GB free hard disk space even after deleting some old randomness and uninstalling some games I don't play any more.

I guess I'm overdue deleting bad pictures. Blurry ones are easiest I guess, but also those badly over or under exposed, and I have a bunch with totally messed up colour after I forgot to reset some settings after doing IR shooting.

Currently I use Picassa as a general browser and it's ok within it's quirks. Are there any better ways to observe and delete images in volume?

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

Well, Lightroom is Excellent for that (And for trillions of other stuff) for me.
And i guess that Explorer works too? Just browse through them. And delete. I don't know.. Well, LR works for me.

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Sonyian?

My Flickr - Comments very welcome
Gear: a200, Sony 18-70 3.5-5.6 DT, Minolta 50 1.7 AF, Lowepro TLZ Mini, GorillaPod SLR Zoom
Saving for Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX HSM Macro II (50%)

Forgot to update this... I've stuck to using Picasa. Lightroom demo downloaded but never got round to installing it yet. I have deleted a fair bunch of blurry pics. Folder is now... 81GB which isn't bad considering I've taken a fair bunch since last time.

Just got a NAS box today, haven't decided how to use it yet...

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

Uhm, what is Picasa actually?

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Sonyian?

My Flickr - Comments very welcome
Gear: a200, Sony 18-70 3.5-5.6 DT, Minolta 50 1.7 AF, Lowepro TLZ Mini, GorillaPod SLR Zoom
Saving for Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX HSM Macro II (50%)

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

I've got Hundreds of GB's worth of RAW files.

I don't delete ANYTHING.


I started a new Lightroom library on a new installation of XP to keep everything tagged and orgonised.

My Advice? Buy a few 500GB hard drives They are the best "bang for buck" in terms of Storage to Price ratio.

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Canon EOS 5DmkII + BG-E6 + Canon EOS 40D + BG-E2N + Canon EOS 33
Canon 17-40 F/4L USM + Canon 24-70 F/2.8L USM + Canon 28mm F/1.8 USM + Canon 70-200 F/2.8L USM IS + Canon 85mm F/1.8 USM
Canon Speedlite 580EX II + Canon Speedlite 540EZ + 2 x Nikon SB-80DX
Cactus V2s Wireless Trigger - 5 x Cactus V2s Wireless Reciever

MY FLICKR!

I am deleting very bad pics. Ones that have no possible value whatsoever. To keep and manage them is pointless... I'm only doing it for new shoots, will take a while to do same for older shoots.

Trying to avoid adding more HDs around. I don't currently have a case that will hold more disks without thermal meltdown.

Recently got a 500GB network storage thing. I never understood the point behind them as they seemed stupidly expensive, until I found a HP unit that wasn't much more than a USB drive. Now I just got to get round to setting up the backup software...

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

You should invest in a external storage drive. They are great and have big capacities. They are also very cheap! However it is good to clear out bad photo's, it isn't good to delete the good ones.. I would get a external.

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http://flickr.com/pismo

You don't say

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Sonyian?

My Flickr - Comments very welcome
Gear: a200, Sony 18-70 3.5-5.6 DT, Minolta 50 1.7 AF, Lowepro TLZ Mini, GorillaPod SLR Zoom
Saving for Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX HSM Macro II (50%)

My photography folder is around 18gb. I've had my DSLR since Oct 2007. I edit just about every shot I take that's worth keeping, so during that process I delete the photo's I don't want to keep and that's that.

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I've upped my Iso, now up yours.
Nikon D700, Nikon D80, Micro Nikkor 105 f2.8 AI-S,Nikon 85mm 1.8D, Nikon 50mm 1.8D, Nikon 35mm F2D, Nikon 16-35 f4 VR, Nikon 24-70mm F2.8 AF-S, Nikon 70-200VRII, Nikon 70-300mm VR, 300mm f2.8 AI IF ED, SB-800, SB-900. Noiseware pro,NIK Dfine, Nik Colour Effex, Nik Sharpener Pro