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<blockquote data-quote="DaveKoontz" data-source="post: 1347" data-attributes="member: 315">Thanks Dave, My first experience with a digital camera was a very small 3 mp Fuji 5000. I shot only jpegs for use on eBay. That was it as serious photography was for film cameras! My wife had told me that the Fuji was &quot;Cute&quot;!&nbsp; -&nbsp; Again it wasn't for serious photography. When I finally purchased my D200 a few years ago I made the mistake of continuing to shoot small jpeg images so I could get more onto the Card. Again serious photography was for my F100 and my other film cameras. Within six months I had made the full transition to Digital, bought larger capacity cards, and started shooting RAW. Now, when the shoot is over I download immediately to my desktop, and then import the images at the NEF quality into Aperture. Once the upload is complete I then move the 'original' files from the desktop to one of my other drives that I use for storage. The files that were transferred to Aperture are working files, stored in the Aperture Libraries (on a totally different drive), where the Master image is still NEF and serves as the negative for jpeg, TIFF, etc. versions. I also use the same workflow for my D700, but with the FX platform, the files are larger and are take up a lot of space.&nbsp; I have been told by some folks that I should save at TIFF quality to insure color over the years.&nbsp; I'm not totally sold on this as the file space requirement would tremendous and I can only populate my Mac with two more drives before another I have to make major investment in peripherals.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DaveKoontz, post: 1347, member: 315"] Thanks Dave, My first experience with a digital camera was a very small 3 mp Fuji 5000. I shot only jpegs for use on eBay. That was it as serious photography was for film cameras! My wife had told me that the Fuji was "Cute"! - Again it wasn't for serious photography. When I finally purchased my D200 a few years ago I made the mistake of continuing to shoot small jpeg images so I could get more onto the Card. Again serious photography was for my F100 and my other film cameras. Within six months I had made the full transition to Digital, bought larger capacity cards, and started shooting RAW. Now, when the shoot is over I download immediately to my desktop, and then import the images at the NEF quality into Aperture. Once the upload is complete I then move the 'original' files from the desktop to one of my other drives that I use for storage. The files that were transferred to Aperture are working files, stored in the Aperture Libraries (on a totally different drive), where the Master image is still NEF and serves as the negative for jpeg, TIFF, etc. versions. I also use the same workflow for my D700, but with the FX platform, the files are larger and are take up a lot of space. I have been told by some folks that I should save at TIFF quality to insure color over the years. I'm not totally sold on this as the file space requirement would tremendous and I can only populate my Mac with two more drives before another I have to make major investment in peripherals. [/QUOTE]

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