Allow me to geek out for a second. I’m not really a tech driven person, given a choice I would rather shoot film than the megapixel monsters we take to every wedding, I don’t have a “what’s in my camera bag section”, I did once buy some radio transmitters for my flash but the fuss of setting everything up made me sell them, I usually prefer wider lenses to those telephotos that have everyone staring at the photographer, but when our new Drobo arrived yesterday I couldn’t help being excited… besides being slick as beans, she holds 8 terabytes of data with dual disk redundancy. Huh? There is a geek hiding in every photographer.

So what is a Drobo … its a business class storage solution that allows you to backup data in a way that is super secure – when you’re dealing with wedding pics its all critical data – so it makes sense to invest in something that takes care of all the backups and redundancy issues. If one of the disks fails you just replace it and the data gets recreated. No more spending hours at data recovery, no more trying to keep optical media error free and out of any kind of light.

I kind of wanted to add something here, somewhat related, about getting quite a few questions about how many cameras we bring to a wedding (the answer is five, they’re all professional level digital Nikons, we use them for different things – e.g. the little-black-camera-that-could is a super light camera that I sometimes use for shooting speeches without a flash) and finding that question a bit odd. I know that all the wedding mags say that you should ask that and its probably a sensible thing to ask, I just wonder why they don’t ask how many flashes you bring (just as likely to break down as a camera and almost impossible to shoot without once it gets dark – unless you own the little black camera that could), or what kind of backup system you have in place (just as important these days as how many cameras you take). Just a thought.

This entry was posted Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at 5:17 pm and is filed under Info.