On Jan 31, 2013, at 2:31 PM, P. J. Alling 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.
I do download to my laptop and do a quick review at the end of the day, so it would take multiple catastrophes for me to lose more than one day's shooting. And since I virtually always have two cameras in use, switching cameras rather than switching lenses, I would likely still have 50% of a day's shooting on a good card. stan > > 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 >> >> > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
