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Saturday, April 04, 2026
By Mike Moats Photography
Part two of my journey into the digital world. Yesterday I said I had an issue with storage of images in camera with a one gig compact flash card.
I learned that the images out of the camera were going to need some post processing. I bought a printer and with the printer I got a free Photoshop Elements processing program.
Now have to learn how to use that.
So, I started processing my jpegs and everything was working fine. I knew about RAW files so thought I would shoot some and see the difference. I converted the Raw files into Tiffs and did some processing.
Here is problem two. In 2004 I owned the cheapest tower computer because I'm cheap. Very slow processor, back in those days a cheap computer maybe had a half a gig of RAM. You all know for processing images it's good to have at least 8 gigs of RAM and a fast processor.
So, when I went to process the first Tiff images I was experimenting with, I found the time it would take with any adjustments I was making in Elements was taking forever.
The computer was not powerful enough to process the larger files of the Tiffs. So, I'm back to using the Jpegs, because I just spend a lot of money on the new camera and am not going to buy another more powerful computer.
Problem number three. Even if the computer was fast enough to process the large file Tiffs the hard drive on a cheap computer didn't have enough space to store all these large files, but it could handle the smaller files of the jpegs.
But here's the thing, the jpegs images with some good processing looked really good.
Come back tomorrow as the saga continues.