April 18, 2024 ☼ photography ☼ storage ☼ lightroom ☼ photos
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The advanced tools that organize images do so in a way that distances you from your stuff. You must acquire, learn, maintain and pay for these tools, which might or might not continue to exist, or exist in a manner acceptable to you. Or have your privacy violated by new technology without your knowledge or consent—hardly unheard of.
While the situation above for a semi-professional photographer might be an unusual case (eg TIF and not JPG or RAW), the issues stem from an organizational debt whose balance has come due. Moreover, the issue of data integrity only grows more important with time.