On Jan 31, 2013, at 3:23 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. > --
Yes, but only in the peace and quiet of a hotel room, etc. Back in the BD era (before digital), I was in a dugout canoe being taken across a small river in Panama on my way to visit a native village, a village noted for their artisans. Reallylooking forward to some shots of the locals at work and of thier finished product. Spotted a couple of Ibis along the shore. Snapped the last frame on the roll in the camera (PZ-1p), quickly rewound, reloaded. In my haste, a certain amount of rocking back and forth of the dugout ensued. No, I didn't drop either film or camera in the river. Instead I poked my thumb through the cloth shutter curtain. The end of photography for that trip. Lesson 1: it is worth the bother to carry a 2nd camera. Lesson 2: don't try to change film in a dugout canoe while in the middle of a river. I have since extrapolated #2 to a more general lesson: don't change recording media in the heat of the moment; wait for a quiet time and place, thus avoiding potential disasters that might befall media and/or camera. 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.
