Backblaze, for example, costs $60 per year for unlimited storage and supports pretty much any file - not just photos. Unless the organization tools are extremely important, most photographers will find other cloud storage providers to be cheaper. Just two terabytes of storage will run a photographer $120 per year. SmugMug’s pricing can add up quickly, especially if a photographer has taken a lot of high-resolution RAWs. Those who subscribe to SmugMug Source will have two separate bills from the company: one for the plan subscription and one for the RAW storage solution. This price is billed as an add-on to a current SmugMug plan. After that, each additional terabyte is $5 per month with no limit or cap - as long as a photographer is willing to pay the fee, SmugMug is willing to host the data. The starting price is $3 per month for 512 gigabytes of storage and $5 per month for up to a terabyte. In order to manage how much data each photographer uses, SmugMug bases the pricing of Source on a per-terabyte basis that is measured specifically with regard to RAW files uploaded to its system and calculated every month prior to billing. The company does not state how long it expects to take to recognize RAW file formats from newly-released cameras. The company also says that users can sidecar files from Adobe, Capture One, and DxO.

SmugMug says that it supports RAW files from all major camera manufacturers of the following file types: ARW, BMP, CR2, CR3, CRW, DCR, DNG, IIQ, MRW, NEF, NRW, ORF, PEF, RAF, RAW, RW2, RWL, SRF, SRW, TIFF, TIF, X3F. While the company does encourage users to download and manage files using the SmugMug app for desktop, it’s not required to use all the features.

SmugMug Source claims to finally address this and allows users to store and access RAW files from a computer browser, both macOS and Windows, Adobe Lightroom, iOS, and Android.

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