u/samtama7

So correct me if I'm wrong here, but when someone takes a picture on their iPhone, that picture is saved into the phone's internal flash storage by default, and if iCloud is enabled and synced, that photo is automatically backed up/copied onto it as well, right?

I thought it was as simple as that until I got the notification that my iCloud's storage was full and wouldn't be able to sync more photos (I've always had it enabled). A little while later, I log back into my phone to look at some pictures in the Photos app and see that more than half of them are missing. I checked the trash, and everything I was looking for was still missing. It wouldn't make sense to say that those pictures are missing just since they weren't synced with iCloud for some reason, because that would indicate that it wasn't actually backed up as a copy to iCloud from my internal drive; the file would've just gone straight to iCloud (not as a copy) instead of being saved on my internal drive.

The only reason I'm speculating this is because when I've tried to go back and few some photos in the past if my signal was bad and my wifi was down, the image would look like a low-res proxy to begin with before my phone took a second to download it to see in its original full resolution. But that of course got me thinking, "Wait, is this picture not actually stored in my phone's internal flash memory? Is the file only located in iCloud?"

Anyhow, immediately after I saw half my camera roll missing, I decided to just pay for iCloud+ to get the additional 50 GB storage. It didn't solve the problem, so whatever I'm not getting here is really throwing me off. All I really want is to get my photos back, but this whole iCloud conundrum shouldn't even be a conundrum to begin with. I always thought of it as an optional cloud storage system that you can use to backup all of your phone's data to, and although it technically still is, this is just adding a whole new layer to it.

What am I not getting here?

*iPhone SE 2nd Generation / iOS 16

Yes, I know this sort of conversation has been had before on this sub in some form or another, and as someone who's already been working in the industry as an AC and loader/data wrangler (mainly in the world of unscripted TV), I know that your network is 90% of what gets you anywhere. So more specifically, I could use some feedback on how to network well so I'm not just left hearing, "I'll keep you in mind," and never actually getting any referrals.

I'm local to NY and Philly (I'm trying to just make a permanent move to NY though), and although I never went to film school or any college for that matter, I've still edited some of my own work before, as I also attended the Manhattan Edit Workshop to get Avid certified. They also helped provide me with a list of companies in NY to reach out to, and helped me refine my resume so I can better market myself as an AE or Post-PA; my 4-to-5 years as a data wrangler already works in my favor since my responsibilities overlap in some ways with being an AE or Post-PA.

At the moment, cold emailing has been my main approach. As detested as it may be, it actually got me an interview with an ad production company/post-house in NY that's hopefully going to get me on some projects, so I wouldn't write off this approach even if it's not the best. The other few companies that did get back to me aren't looking to onboard right now, so rather than just cold emailing more companies, I'm not too sure how to go about networking from here.

For the most part, I've only worked in production on a professional level, so I usually have to look a little harder to find anyone in post. As a wrangler on set, I've worked remotely with a fair share of post-production supervisors and AE's that are almost always based in LA with no connections to NY (from my experience so far), but honestly, is there anything else I should be trying instead of just hitting up some post-supervisors, line producers, or anyone else in the business with the hopes that they can recommend me to the right person/people out east? Even as an AC and wrangler, most of the people I meet and get along with still usually don't have anything to share my name to (or just forget me in all fairness), so all that to say, the idea of just connecting with the right people in post through some chance encounter via word of mouth is something I don't have a lot of confidence in.

Which isn't to say I won't put my best foot forward, but I feel like a need a more targeted approach. Is there perhaps a spot/event where professionals in post get together to network and mingle?

I know this is already off to a morbid start, but when I eventually die one day, I’d prefer to have one of my closest friends receive a copy of my death certificate. I’m not sure if I would have to name him as a beneficiary first (which I’m not sure how to do either), but I don’t know where to start with this.

I read that CineStill 800T is almost exactly the same as Vision3 500T, and the only reason they market it as a 800 is because it uses C-41 processing to push it rather than Vision3's required ECN-2 processing. So in that case, instead of metering for a stock that's 500 ISO, should I still be metering at 800 ISO then?

If so, since there are other photography stocks that are basically repackaged motion picture stocks, like how Amber D400 and CineStill 400D are the same as Vision3 250D, would the same logic apply to them as well?