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Smartphone with 32 & 64GB too small for media
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This is a pretty standard thread from OP but don’t let it be an indicator of the tone and content of other discussions across this community
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was there a question in this thread or are you telling us 32 and 64GB isn't enough for Smartphones? the post sounded like a tweet
do you have any questions about photography techniques? or just random not really photo related gear questions? it's getting a bit tedious, as hard as i am trying with you.
Not true, using iCloud and optimize photos. Used a 32GB iPhone 6s until recently with no problem at all. Purchasing iCloud storage is much cheaper than buying a new phone. Should do it anyway.
btw, I have 4TB of photos and about 10TB of videos, so am not a stranger to storage requirements for media. A 32GB phone does just fine
As has been pointed out, the space used on an iPhone or iPad is different than what is used in an actual camera. My iPhone and iPad each have 256 GB capacity -- not for photos, but because I have my rather large iTunes library on there. I don't use Apple Music and I prefer to have my music readily available to me on the device(s). I also don't use Photos and I don't ship any photos I've shot on the iPhone to iCloud. I only occasionally take photos with my iPhone and even more rarely with the iPad.
My photography needs are quite different, as I use actual cameras which are meant for that purpose and which are not also a phone/text message sharer/database/music player/etc..... and I have memory cards (SD, CFexpress Type A) in the various storage capacities appropriate to the situations in which I use them. This is how most photographers deal with this sort of thing.
When I have been out walking around the neighborhood and doing some shooting, or have been shooting away from home, after I return, or after I've completed an indoor shooting session at home, one of the first things I do is to transfer the image files via memory card reader to the computer, and then either shortly after that or when I have time, I review the images and edit some. Edited images are immediately exported from the editing program to my desktop. I have a hierarchical folder-and-file system set up (as most photographers do) and I put the new images where I want them. After that, I also copy the newly edited files plus the RAW files into one or more external drives for safekeeping. Some photographers use NAS or other ways of safely backing up their images. After ensuring that the image files are safe, I then stick the memory card(s) back into the camera and format them for the next shooting session.
Keeping files on an active memory card that is used over and over again is a recipe for disaster.
My photography needs are quite different, as I use actual cameras which are meant for that purpose and which are not also a phone/text message sharer/database/music player/etc..... and I have memory cards (SD, CFexpress Type A) in the various storage capacities appropriate to the situations in which I use them. This is how most photographers deal with this sort of thing.
When I have been out walking around the neighborhood and doing some shooting, or have been shooting away from home, after I return, or after I've completed an indoor shooting session at home, one of the first things I do is to transfer the image files via memory card reader to the computer, and then either shortly after that or when I have time, I review the images and edit some. Edited images are immediately exported from the editing program to my desktop. I have a hierarchical folder-and-file system set up (as most photographers do) and I put the new images where I want them. After that, I also copy the newly edited files plus the RAW files into one or more external drives for safekeeping. Some photographers use NAS or other ways of safely backing up their images. After ensuring that the image files are safe, I then stick the memory card(s) back into the camera and format them for the next shooting session.
Keeping files on an active memory card that is used over and over again is a recipe for disaster.
But how?? I ask something I do not know. How can you view all that media on a 32GB device? What if you are on a plane away from the internet?
how absurd! books and magazines went away with film and tapes!
what size is your memory card?
Have you ever tried to look at something from the point of view of someone other than yourself?
I can't view all of my media on a 1 TB iPhone or a 2 TB iPad. It simply won't hold all of it. And obviously, I'd never want to view all of my "media" at any one point anyway, regardless of where it is stored.
Most plane flights I go on, I may watch a handful of movies, which don't even remotely approach 2 TB, for example. Obviously, to each their own. Just presenting other options here.
My mistake in wording. I meant all photos and videos captured on the iPhone or iPad. I am not talking about movies.
Okay. A legitimate question. When you turn on optimized storage, you still have access to all of your photos, just smaller versions.
Actually print books are still alive and kicking. Perhaps most would rather have a actual book over a ebook.
This I have never used. Perhaps my mom may need to since she had some 20,000 photos and only 64GB!
When I fill up my phone with too many photos (which hasn't happened in many years) I offload those photos permanently to my computer. I don't need to access every single photo I have ever taken every single moment of the day.
Some people can, in fact, manage their files outside of their carry everywhere device.
If you want to store all your photos and videos in full resolution on your phone, then yes, you need enough storage space on your phone to do so.
However many people will find that eventually their photo/videos occupy more space than any reasonable amount of storage on a phone, so instead store their photos elsewhere, and the phone only needs to have enough storage to store recent shoots and lower resolution versions. The iCloud storage is extremely convenient, automatic, requires no manual thought or intervention, and syncs the photos on all devices, iMac, iPhone, iPad. On the small iPhone screen you don't need full resolution versions anyway.
The money saved by getting a lower storage phone easily pays for years of iCloud storage.
Currently on my iPhone 11 Pro Max, my photos are only occupying 2.8GB actually on the phone.
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Plane flights from Denver to Alaska are long so I usually store 1-3 movies for watching.
Did not know this. Thanks for the suggestion. Won’t help me since my devices have plenty of space but it will help my mom and others who have 64GB models.
Again I ask, how can you still have space. You do know how big files are for standard HD.
My camcorder has a 64GB card and I have like 6 hours left of video. I have shot a hour and a half or 2 hours since 2018.