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Keep photos on memory cards?

Keep photos on memory cards?

From the course: Photo Gear Weekly

Keep photos on memory cards?

- After I've captured photos, I cannot wait to get those photos from my media card onto my computer, in large part so that I can back up those photos, but also so that I can review the images and find my favorites, start working with the images, optimizing them, and maybe even sharing them. But I've had some photographers join me on photo workshops who actually leave all of the photos on the memory card. And so that got me thinking, might that be a good step in your workflow? Well certainly, that would provide potentially an additional backup while you're traveling. And so if you travel with enough memory cards to last you through the full duration of your trip, it's not a bad idea to download off the card, get those photos onto your computer, onto an external hard drive, for example, back up those photos, but also making sure then that you keep the images on that card so that you have that additional backup. So you…

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