Amazon Prime Photos Has An Incredible Secret Feature Photographers Will Love

I had originally declined Amazon Prime photos. The unlimited storage option was attractive, but Google Photos seemed to be a better system. On the one hand, the Google app is nice to use and seems to look beautiful collages and memories for me. The only point of collision for me was that I did not want to pay for Google.

Anyone who uses photos knows that Google allows you to store compressed images, but no originals, unless you are happy to consume in your store. When I paid for the Apple iCloud, I wanted to avoid coughing for another service. But the prime photos of Amazon are unlimited and do not mention the compression of images.

But Amazon has another amazing feature that hides it in the view - it allows you to store raw image files in your free allotment. If you do not know what the raw file is, this article can not be for you - but if you are still curious, it is the sensor output of the camera without compression (or only slight compression). The advantages of the industry are that you keep the dynamic range of the image and that you can make a lot of post-processing adjustments to compensate for under-exposure or over-exposure.


Here is how it works - if you have Prime Photos with your premium subscription or if you paid the annual fee (it's just $ 12 for just pictures, by the way, a case for unlimited memory) you can just download as many pictures as yours Hard drive as you want and they will not rely on your memory allocation.

If you are a photographer, the excellent news is that Amazon allows you to store jpegs and raw files. My SLR produces jpegs of more than 10 MB and gross equivalents over 50 MB. Some photos albums and you talk about many gigabytes. In fact, I have my entire library of images and I have reached 1TB so far.

In the long run, I could not always keep raw images forever. It's just not practical to hold a high-resolution jpg and a raw file of the same image. But I like it, and the jpg gives me a simple and easy-to-see image, while the raw Nikon file gives me something I can work on and measure the light levels and generally better images. So, maybe if I can distribute any of my raw files on the cloud, then I do not have to keep them local.

Of course, it is always possible that Amazon stops raw images, or it will only give you a smaller amount of memory. If that happens, I guess I'll handle it but for now Amazon Prime Photos has a real Easter egg I did not know until I looked at it.

If you are a photographer whose image library is out of control, I ask you to see Prime Photos. The application is a bit painful, but if you find the button "Download without synchronization", you will be fully configured. If nothing else helps, a little soul peace as an offsite backup, which is for domestic users, usually uncomfortable for extended image files.

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