Hey,

I was wondering if anyone has any experience using Flickr pro account for back-up storage? I see it's only $24.95 a year with unlimited storage, uploads, and bandwith.

It doesn't say anything about downloads, so do they charge you to pull the photos off?

Just wondering??

Thinking about using it as my 3rd copy..

Thanks!
Dia

Nope, they dont charge to pull the photos off...however.....Flickr is considered Creative Commons. Basically, someone can use your work if they wanted to somewhere else without asking...I mean....just like at this for instance....

Photosynth

Upload to Flickr, then change your permissions to "Private". You can download them very easily, however theres no way to batch download. I have had a pro Flickr for over 2 years now. At one point I had over 5,000 photos on there....I pretty much wiped it clean, and only have some good stuff on there.

Why?

Because Microsoft found their photographer to shoot the wallpapers for Vista, on Flickr. Same thing with a car company out of Iceland. They stumbled upon a photographer to shoot their car ad that appeared all over the place.

Long response...sorry.....hope I answered your question.

Oh..its also cool because they automatically give html codes to display the photos anywhere, in one of 5 different sizes.

Well, not exactly. Flickr is not creative commons per se, your stuff is all rights reserved by default. If your work is public, however, due to the large audience, you are definitely going to get more people downloading it than you would if they were either not publicly visible or just available on your blog or website. Some of those people are less concerned with copyright than we'd like, though many of the infringers just don't get it and aren't doing anything intentionally wrong.

You can upload everything private if you're concerned about that sort of thing, then you will be the only one to see it. While Flickr itself doesn't have any batch downloading tools, there are 3rd party apps that do all sorts of lovely things, including that. Just do a Google search and you'll find what you need.

I don't use Flickr as an archive, but I know plenty of people who do. Most don't use it as a primary archive, just because there are simpler, faster solutions out there, but as the emergency failsafe, the final front if other methods all fail.

Very true...or in DJ's case...uses it for those mobile phone shots to host photos for his blog...