With the growth of file sizes and the sheer number of archives created in digital photography, transferring and storing files has leaped from a simple home-computing environment to something resembling more of a business scheme (albeit on a smaller scale). Hubs, routers and network-attached storage (NAS), once confined to corporate IT departments, are now common components in the digital photographer’s realm as well.

Networking for digital photography may be as simple as connecting your computer to the Internet. But soon it may grow to incorporate a second computer, network file storage or a network print server. Let’s take a look at the networking options.