Putting photos onto disk - help

chocolatepennyfarthing

Looking for a bit of advice please. Have approx 700 photos on memory card that I want to put onto disks. What disks is it best to buy for this? how many will I need and where is is cheapest to purchase them from.

Thanks

chocolatepennyfarthing

Can I ask what difference is between dvd-r and the dvd-rw disks.

aliEnRIK

dvd-rw are more expensive but you can REWRITE on them. dvd-r are JUSt recordable (Once recorded onto you cant change them)

BUT ~ people have all sorts of problems with the 'rw' ones so you may as well go for the 'record once' ones

Personally I use DATAWRITE TITANIUMS. If you go for the cheapie ones, they will almost certainly 'break down' over time

totalsolutions

700 Photos is 1 cd, worth 30p

robt_2

totalsolutions wrote: »

700 Photos is 1 cd, worth 30p

Thats a silly sweeping statement as you have no idea how large the files are. Could you explain to me how you would get 700x2MB photos onto one cd without compression?

totalsolutions

>Looking for a bit of advice please.
Given freely

>Have approx 700 photos on memory card that I want to put onto disks.

700 Photos given

>What disks is it best to buy for this?
CD

>how many will I need

just the one

>where is is cheapest

in the range of 30p

Google "How many photos on a cd " Results > 250,000,000 (253 Million)
Extract Wkiipedia
"CD-ROM capacities are normally expressed with binary prefixes, subtracting the space used for error correction data. A standard 120 mm, "700 MB" CD-ROM can hold about 847 MB of data."

Most 6 meg pixel cameras will use jpeg format and output a picture file size under 1 Mb so very easy to fit 700 odd photos, I did not just pick this number out of thin air, I answered the OP taking some liberties with the open ended question. I have answered it with complete justification of the answer being true on this occasion.

Robt what is the figure you have come up with, to date?

robt_2

totalsolutions wrote: »

Robt what is the figure you have come up with, to date?

Eh?

My post quite clearly suggested that saying 'one cd' is a silly answer as you (still) have no idea what the file sizes are.

There are hundreds of cameras on the market which produce images of 5MB+. You are making another assumption that the images are compresed JPEGs.

darich

totalsolutions wrote: »

>Looking for a bit of advice please.
Given freely

>Have approx 700 photos on memory card that I want to put onto disks.

700 Photos given

>What disks is it best to buy for this?
CD

>how many will I need

just the one

>where is is cheapest

in the range of 30p

Google "How many photos on a cd " Results > 250,000,000 (253 Million)
Extract Wkiipedia
"CD-ROM capacities are normally expressed with binary prefixes, subtracting the space used for error correction data. A standard 120 mm, "700 MB" CD-ROM can hold about 847 MB of data."

Most 6 meg pixel cameras will use jpeg format and output a picture file size under 1 Mb so very easy to fit 700 odd photos, I did not just pick this number out of thin air, I answered the OP taking some liberties with the open ended question. I have answered it with complete justification of the answer being true on this occasion.

Robt what is the figure you have come up with, to date?

If a 6mp camera is producing images of 1mb then the quality is set to "very low". I've had 3mp cameras produce 1.5mb images. My current camera produces a 4mb jpg and when using highest quality available, it's closer to 13mb per file.

If i made the same type of assumptions as you had and gone for different numbers then I'd suggest buying a spindle of 100CDs because you'll only get 9-10 images on each disc - working on the assumption that each file is a tiff converted from a RAW file - my tiffs are almost 70mb when converted from RAW.

There's no way you can give any sort of answer without knowing what file size the images are, what camera they camer from, raw images? tiffs?

Need more info for an accurate answer.