Hello, I'm just trying to get a good idea of the space I will need for my picture collection. This way, I can choose an appropriate size hard drive. I'm looking to get a new camera and plan to shoot exclusivley in the largest raw format option. Let's take the Cannon EOS Ra for example or any other 30 megapixel camera. That should be around 6720 x 4480 and the raw file size being about 50MB per image. Is this correct? My main question is what else is involved. For example, I will have to convert all my raw files to DNG so I can edit them in older camera raw software. At that point, I would delete the origial raw file. What would a DNG file size be when converting it from a 30mp raw file? Now, I have just a DNG file. In order for me to edit or view this picture, will I need a copy of the image in another format, such as Tiff? Basically, will I end up with 2 copies for each picture, a DNG and a Tiff? I guess I could edit the DNG, save it as a Tiff and then delete the DNG file. Once I know about how much space I need for one picture, I can then detrmine how much space I need for my collection. Thank you,
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