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So with the acquisition of my first actual camera in a few years and an itchy trigger finger I think I'm going to need at least a new hard drive and something better than Picassa for management.
So couple of questions I can do raw, jpeg or both on the camera. And real benefits of raw for the enthusiastic a mature.
What to manage them all with?
Already got premiere on the Adobe cc deal so it not much more to get the full suite which includes photoshop and lightroom etc.
Think I'm averaging about 1000 pics/day as a tourist (lots of editing and deleting to come)
Lightroom.
Lightroom +1, with a big external drive to act as your photo library.
I prefer to use RAW where possible and use LR for the post processing and export as JPEG as and when I require.
Exactly as momo says, except you need two drives. Might as well get straight into the way of backing up your photos. You can set LR to Import to two (or more) drives.
got a NAS, 2 laptops and 6 drives in the main PC... plus google/dropbox for more storage so that is sorted and already done
I use Picassa for photo management, it's very fast coping with 1000s of photos (although possibly that's the SSD).
I only use LR if I want to process a photo for printing.
I think Windows Photo Gallery is actually pretty good for managing photos. Lets you do all of the usual tagging, including people tagging, with face recognition etc.
All of the tags are stored within the photo files, so they can be used by other software, or searched in Windows explorer.
So couple of questions I can do raw, jpeg or both on the camera. And real benefits of raw for the enthusiastic a mature.
To turn this question around - "Is there any reason you should limit your opportunities to make good photographs by merely shooting in JPG?"
RAW + Lightroom is the way to go.
Remember an image on one drive is an image you are going to lose. Backup, backup and backup if you value your photos.
For organisation, I have a little script that I wrote which checks for an SD card in the PC, prompts for a description of the photos and moves each batch into a folder named:
CCYY-MM-DD-<description>
This allows for easy sorting and finding back of images.