Losing cards is a problem but a card can also becoming non functional,
I've had a few physically fall apart making them unusable, but I was
able to recover the data from them. However as a cautionary tail a
friend of mine, went on a once in a lifetime vacation to southern
Africa, intending to do a lot of wildlife shooting. He brought enough SD
cards to take several, thousand photos, without having to download them
to a computer, he doesn't have a laptop, (shooting JPEG, he doesn't
shoot raw), He filled up four cards. When he returned I got a call for
help, one of his cards couldn't be read by his computer. I suggested a
number of different recovery programs. The third one finally was able to
recover data from the card. All of the downloaded files were corrupted.
I took a look at it and nothing I tried was able to do better. If you
have everything on one card and that card goes south, you loose everything.
On 1/31/2013 9:57 AM, Stan Halpin wrote:
On Jan 31, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Matthew Hunt wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Bruce and PDMLer Friends, That is the question: why buy 16 GB
Cards when you can't fill it up in a shoot??
1) I don't like to delete files from cards during a vacation, even
after I've copied them to the laptop. So larger cards mean fewer cards
to store, switching less often, etc. Since I back up to the laptop
daily, I'm not too worried about losing more than a day's photos at
once, which is one of the most common objections to large cards.
...
Ditto.
People have mentioned a concern with "losing" cards as a reason to go with smaller cards, thereby
minimizing the quantity of images that might be lost. I have two thoughts about that. First, if it is a 32GB
or 64GB card in the camera and I almost certainly won't fill the card in one day of vacation/travel shooting,
then the card stays in the camera all day. The only way to lose it is to lose the camera. If it is a smaller
capacity card that I need to swap out during the day, then there would be more chance of physically losing or
damaging the card during or after a card swap. The second kind of "lose" of images could be from a
failure of the SD card itself. Again, I assume that less handling of the cards will reduce the chance of
causing damage to the cards, and again the strategy of "big card, don't swap" makes sense to me.
stan
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