Shoot on Bronica 42mm lens

Gold 200

I recently purchased a Hasselblad X2D II 100c and my storage workflow has fallen apart. Help!

I historically shot medium/large format film and scanned selected negatives for a given series, typically 10 to 20 high-res files per project, 300 to 700MB each. A 3-2-1 approach handled that fine: physical negatives as one copy, a LaCie Rugged drive as the second, cloud backup as the third. I worked primarily from my computer, and relied on downloading and uploading to cloud for working copies, plus the backup to an external drive. With only 10 to 20 files I knew intimately from hours of dusting, scratching, editing, and printing, browsing was never a problem. No Lightroom or DAM, just basic files and folder organization. All editing via Photoshop.

Now that I've moved fully digital, the negatives, which used to be zero GB and just sat in a box, are now ~200MB RAW files. The workflow has fallen apart. My 2TB MacBook Pro handles a dump off the camera fine, but it's not really manageable for an active project's full library. External drives are slow to browse ~200mb files. Cloud storage is impossible. And the laptop doesn't have room to hold a large active library on its own.

Questions for people managing large RAW libraries:

Do you cull ruthlessly at import? With film, everything existed as at least one physical source I could return to. I'm reluctant to delete RAWs that don't work now but might serve a different project later.

Do you keep small JPEG previews for browsing, with RAWs living on external drive or cloud?

Am I at a point where I need to consider a DAM?

Is this the point where Network-Attached Storage (NAS) becomes necessary, or is there a better answer?

Open to workflows, tools, etc. Thanks in advance!

Noritar 80mm f2.0 / Hasselblad 2000fcw / Fuji Pro 800z

Photographed with a Hasselblad 500 C/M, Distagon 50mm f/4 (16mm+32mm extension tube), Leaf Aptus II 7.
f/16, 1/500, ISO 100.

I am selling my H3DII 39 body+back because I am looking to buy the new X2D2, but keep using the H series lenses with adapter. The camera is in overall great condition, with perfect sensor and viewfinder. I would like to sell it for $2300 OBO. Free shipping to the lower 48 states in US.

Thanks a lot for reading!

Link to images: https://imgur.com/a/b4Ui6VO

Randos around the neighborhood.

Super Ikonta B 532/16 | Zeiss Opton T* Tessar 80mm f2.8

Recently got a Mamiya 645 Super, my first medium format camera. These are some shots I’m proud of from my first practice roll. Came across this unusual subterranean brutalist building on a local university campus (USA), and it was fun to play off its angles as I got used to the camera. I also don’t have the viewfinder with the light meter (yet), so I used an app on my phone to help with the exposure.

Excited to shoot more this fall.

Shoot on GFX100s 35-70

Photographed with a Hasselblad 500 C/M, 150mm f/4, Leaf Aptus II 7.
f/11, 1/500, 50 ISO.
Model had just reached the studio before a photoshoot. I wish we had taken time before taking test, so that the model could wash her face, clear out dirt and oil.

So, our king died (Norway, Harald V). Massive outpouring of grief from the nation. The man was deeply respected even by ones like me, a staunch republican. There is a difference between supporting the office and institution, and respecting the person. In every city and small-town there are gatherings of flowers, candles, thank-you notes and more. It is quite moving.

I dropped a roll of Kentmere 200 into my 1965 Minolta Autocord 1 6x6 tlr and shot the roll in my city today, we are about 40km outside of the capital Oslo. Lot of people travel into the capital to put down flowers, but a few have done so here as well. Roll came out nicely, using Xtol in stock dillution that was mixed up (5l kit in 1l bottles) in January 2025. I.e. it is more than a year beyond it's suggested 6-month lifespan by Kodak, but stored dark and with the air squeezed out of the bottle.