 | August 02, 2012 Breaking news from America's top photo magazines |   | |  | Five of the world's top Olympic sports photographers talk about what it's like to shoot the biggest sporting event in the world Getty Images photographer Streeter Lecka puts it best: “The Olympics are unlike anything you will ever shoot in sports,” he says. “For professional shooters, it’s our Super Bowl. The competitive spirit that the athletes feel, we feel. We’re all going for that iconic picture that will forever go down in Olympic history.” |
| | We asked pro shooters what gear they are bringing to shoot the London 2012 Games, their responses will make you see dollar signs | | What kind of kit would you bring to cover the biggest sporting event in the world? | | The photo agency plans to cover the Olympics with innovative cameras |
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Q. You “recommend using external storage for backup only, never for long-term storage.” My external hard drives are full of my long-term storage. What should I do instead?
A. The main rule for storage and backup is redundancy. Data usually gets lost because it’s stored in only one place—usually a hard drive connected to a computer. External hard drives are okay for backup as long as they are used for backing up stuff that is also kept elsewhere. Hard drives fail—it’s their nature; they contain lots of moving parts that eventually wear out. RAID, a system of duplicating data on multiple drives within a single enclosure, was developed to mitigate this. So you may want to choose a RAID array instead of a single external drive.
For your most important images, we highly recommend off-site backup using a cloud-based service such as Google Drive or Microsoft SkyDrive. These have other bonuses, too, such as allowing you to access your images wherever you go. |
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