Shutters Inc – episode 117
This week, Shelton and business partner, Glynn Lavender took a model out to some ruins for a bridal shoot with a difference.
Shelton also recommends that we ALL go and watch this video.
Also, the Victorian bushfires, and what some very generous local photographers (like Richard Annable) are doing to help out.
Shelton, in the process of learning the hard way, talks about the importance of backing up your digital images to another location… preferably a web-based solution like Carbonite.
Bruce answers a listener e-mail regarding the “flash-to-subject distance formula”… and gets it wrong!
Plus, if your camera’s automatic metering modes (aperture priority, shutter priority, etc) suddenly failed, could you survive having to shoot in manual mode?
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I have been using a software Cobian Backup (Open Source) which backups the selected directories from the hard-drive in my laptop to an external hard-drive which is connected to my router.
The software also allows to setup different backup tasks, each backup task can have different backup frequency/strategy (full backup, incremental backup etc) and user can setup post action(s) of the backup task such as sending notification email to your email account or shutting down the computer etc.
Here is the link
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
hi guys, if shelton is still unable to access that hard drive, maybe he should take a look at a program called “spinrite” available from GRC.COM
it has been able to at least breifly restore every hard drive i have thrown at it. long enough for data recovery at least.
If the pictures were fairly recent or if the memory card has not been used much, try using a recovery program on that. I use a free program from http://www.recuva.com
If not that, I heard about a company in the mid-west (US) that recovers drives for a reasonable price. They were mentioned on another podcast I frequent. If you are interested, email me and I will track them down. Maybe you can do a little cross promoting for a super price!!
Got a comment on backups. I use Cobian (mentioned by M. Chan above) and Toucan. Why two, just paranoid I guess. Keep this in mind though, a backup is only as good as its restore. I would test(restore) any backup solution you use to make sure you get the results you expect.
Shelton,
Welcome back you guys have been missed.
I had a problem with accessing mu hard drive also. The tech dude where I work took it out of my machine and put it into his machine. He was then able to acces the date and mark the bad sector and I’m using the hard drive now.
I’ve been wandering about in the cyber for years but only recently have taken to leaving the odd comment about the place. I am realising that communication is very much a large factor in the photography world and I am so pleased to be able to listen to you here. You are great communicators.
Thanks for the link to the video by Z.A. My interest in photography has taken me to place where I thought I’d never go; a whole new world is opening up…