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It's ironic how a minor change in perspective can effect a person's position on something. I have been the sole support person for my companies network disaster recovery testing about three years or so as a collateral duty to my normal job function. Over time, the issue has been raised about "what if" something were to happen to me and I wasn't around to support DR. The obvious answer is to spread the love and get more people involved in the role. Every time it has been attempted, within a test or two, it falls back on me. Everything is non-tasking and completely cake until your are the one doing it. Heh. So anyhoo, I really have been slacking on the photo development. In my own defense, I'm out of hard drive space. I've whittled down this and that, backed up a lot to DVD, uninstalled software that I haven't used in a while... all to no avail. When I shoot, I shoot completely in RAW... and I don't mean I'm naked... or even commando. RAW images are or image data that are written as just a continuous string of numbers. There is no compression or encoding so they are not really images readable by standard viewers supporting TIFF, JPG, yadda yadda yadda. In order to work with the data in a useable image format, it must be converted from RAW data to one of the standard image file formats. RAW image data files are analogous to film negatives. They must be "developed" to create a viewable image. So, where am I going with this? Hard drive space. Each frame that I shoot in RAW is roughly 10MB give or take a meg or two. When I export the RAW frames to the PC, I select the frames I want to "develop" and use a RAW converter to "develop" them into Photoshop Documents. I have used Capture One Professional in the past to convert to TIFF, but since I do all my editing in Photoshop CS, I find that using Adobe Camera Raw (the CS plug-in version) is more efficient to my workflow. Here is where my problem comes in to the picture... no pun intended. Each frame, when saved as a 16 bit .PSD after RAW conversion, is about 150MB. Obviously, that adds up. So, as I either back shit up to offload the drive or purchase more storage capacity, I'll work through more photos. Unfortunately, that is just the pickle I'm in right now. I smell an external high density drive in my future. Oh wait, that's just coffee.