His wife divorced him a couple of years ago, so that wasn't a
particularly attractive option.
On 1/31/2013 3:12 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
On those big trips, it's foolish not to have a test of all your
equipment and components.
He might have found the problem card a bit sooner.
And bring the wife along with a P&S digital, as a failsafe.
Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:31 PM, P. J. Alling
<[email protected]> wrote:
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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