Monday, June 25, 2007
Phanfare: Online Hi-Res Photo/Video Hosting
Posted by Jeremy Charette in "ARTICLE" @ 12:00 PM
Phanfare is a good solution for a secure, offsite repository for your images and video files. The price is a reasonable $5.95/month or $299 for a lifetime membership. This is worth it simply for showcasing your images to family and friends and if you experience a local crash/data loss. Your images are automatically compressed to make viewing more manageable over the Web but users can download high-res originals for printing with no compression. Even the smaller Web versions in your gallery are of high quality with very little artifacts/compression residue. The ability to access the originals is very convenient if the lower resolution isn't satisfactory or if you want to make hard copies of your photos.
One thing I never liked about Flickr or YouTube is the fact that they re-compress your original files and discard the high resolution masters. With the advent of consumer level HD camcorders, there a few good solutions for sharing that video with family and friends. Phanfare looks like just the thing if you want to save those original masters, and be able to share high resolution video over the internet. It isn't free, but it looks like you get what you pay for.
One thing I never liked about Flickr or YouTube is the fact that they re-compress your original files and discard the high resolution masters. With the advent of consumer level HD camcorders, there a few good solutions for sharing that video with family and friends. Phanfare looks like just the thing if you want to save those original masters, and be able to share high resolution video over the internet. It isn't free, but it looks like you get what you pay for.
