I'm at the age now where my peers are starting to have children. Digitally documenting a baby's life from pregnancy to kindergarten has created a storage and sharing problem for many -- especially among the early adopter crowd.
I have spoken to some new dads who say they have filled more than 2TB of space already. Shooting HD video and RAW format on that new Nikon seems to have created a storage problem not easily solved by the cloud.
I ask HN -- are you in this group? Do you think the 2TB dad is an edge case?
What are new moms and dads using to manage the family photo album these days given the file sizes, delivery formats, and sharing problems?
I try to imagine my kid at 18 or 30 years old. He's going to want to have his baby pictures. What file formats from 30 years ago are still readable? Are we really going to keep converting our TBs of pictures to whatever new formats come along? Maybe, but having printed books around is going to make me worry a lot less about those external hard drives over the years.
My parents kept a lot of the negatives from when I was a kid. We have never gone back to the negatives; we only ever look at the albums my mom put together when I was a teenager. I think it's pretty much the same thing.