Like Stan and Bob S I back up the cards on a daily basis. It doesn't
take exotic equipment to do it - I use a 4 yer old netbook w/an SD card
slot and a 360 gig external drive and just copy the images from the
card. Both Irfanview and Faststone Image Viewer do an adequate job if I
want to review the day's shooting.
-p
On 1/31/2013 2:23 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013, Stan Halpin wrote:
On Jan 31, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013, Stan Halpin wrote:
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.
How do you back up your day's shooting?
Download to my laptop (using LR) with a backup to an external hard drive.
Depending on card capacity, how many cards I have with me, what is up
the next day, etc. I may just put the card back in the camera or I may
store it and put in a fresh card. At the end of a trip I would like
to have three copies of everything: laptop hard drive, external hard
drive, and originals on the card(s). If I am running short of space on
the card(s) I'll go ahead and reformat one or two but I try to avoid
that just to be safe.
Okay, so you do pop the card out to download -- that wasn't clear from
your previous post.
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