Online photo storage

Any recommendations for a good on line site to store photos (in addition to an external hard drive)?
Right now I pay for extra space on Picasa (web albums) but I just realized that I cannot download videos that I had uploaded. This is a huge disappointment as I upload to picasa far more frequently than my HD and suddenly had to reset my phone so I am left with videos only on Picasa and no simple way to download them (although I guess there are work arounds such as RealPlayer, but for a paid service I expected more...)

Additionally, when photos are downloaded off of picasa they end up with a huge file name of random letters and numbers. And the new file date is saved as the date downloaded not the date it was taken (which is turning out to be a major issue).

I'd like to find a service that doesn't have these issues and I'm not against paying for storage.

Being able to share photos (via link), organize into albums or folders, and have a mobile app are all a plus but not a must have.

I really don't want a huge social media option like flicker or photobucket. (I use picasa with private albums and I have not signed up for google+)

Suggestions would be really appreciated.

VirtualRain said:

Zenfolio is nice.

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Thanks! I had missed this site in my googling. After looking it up I think I may give it a shot. I have no intentions of selling photos but the storage looks great besides that anyways.

sagar4995 said:

I'm sure you know about Dropbox, so why not just use that? I'm curious to know why you didn't consider that as an option. Seems like an abvious choice, no?

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The $100 annual price tag has been keeping me from trying Dropbox. I use it for documents (between iphone/ipad/work/home not necessarily for storage) but the pricing is somewhat steep for photo storage. I don't mind paying $100 per se, but since I was paying $20 for picasa and zenfolio and the like seem to run around $60- that why I haven't used Dropbox.

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mcbarre said:

I have digitalized all my family photos, I used DropBox to share the files among some family members (few have the space I have so I fill their dropBoxes and they still can't see them all) I'm using Google+ as the "Social/Collaboration" as I need help to tag people, places, events and dates. I personally use Flickr, and already have use for "Family and Friends" settings and in G+ is easy to define custom "Circles" to allow albums visibility (different families, different group of friends) What G+ is lacking is a way to organize albums.

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Doesn't flicker limit the uploaded file size? (Or maybe that was another site I read about?). How does flicker handle videos? And privacy settings?

Most of my sharing I'm finding I do through shared photo streams now. So sharing is a plus with what I'm looking for but not necessarily a necessity if that makes sense... I'd like to be able to (relatively easily) view on a mobile device my photos incase I need one I don't have stored on my phone. (Ie: for picasa I have a third party web albums app that allows basic viewing, uploading, etc) but its rare that I find the need to send a link to an album to share in that respect.

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maflynn said:

I'm not sure if this what you're asking but I use smugmug, its web interface to show photos is good.

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SmugMug looks promising as well. Can you tell me if you download off of SmugMug does the file name / date remain the same as the original you uploaded?

I think I am going to give zenfolio a try. I signed up for their free service. I'm tempted to use one of the transferring programs they list to transfer the photos I already have in Picasa over to Zenfolio.... but then I wonder if I'll be stuck with Picasa's ridiculous file names... if I am it may be worth just uploading them all again from the beginning.

On second thought- zenfolios iPhone and iPad app seems to have horrible reviews and people are not able to upload via the app... Which is making me reconsider.
Initially I didn't think I absolutely needed and iPhone / iPad app but I want to be able to upload photos (and especially videos) without having to put them all on my MacBook first...