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 02/23/2009 05:04:47 PM · #26
I had a couple 2Gs early on, then got 3-4 4Gs, then 3 8Gs (I just watch the prices on amazon, every once in a while they drop to some ridiculously low price and I snag one before it goes back up) I think I have paid roughly the same price for each size--when the 4's got down to the price I paid for the 2's, I snagged em, etc.

Then my brother got me TWO 16G cards for Christmas--sweet!

So, when on travel I can take a heckuva lot of memory with me.

A friend stays exclusively with 2G cards, reasoning that limits how many images he could ever lose in one card failure. No matter what size card I shoot with, or how many/few images I take, I dump em all to a HD and backup as soon as I get home each day. When on travel, I copy them to a 160g external drive (if I have computer access). Someday I will get one of those nifty all in one card reader/copy/store puppies so I will have two copies of each image while on travel, without having to drag a laptop along.

I stay with Sandisk, Extreme III or faster.

Message edited by author 2009-02-23 17:07:28.
 02/23/2009 05:10:46 PM · #27
Two 2GB cards, I dont take alot of action shots and don't need all the memory.
 02/23/2009 05:12:10 PM · #28
I currently only have a single 8GB but can see I will need to purchase a second soon.
 02/23/2009 05:17:53 PM · #29
I use the sorta square compact flash card. It's the size that fits in my camera. I tried a couple of those smaller cards but the slot just seems to swallow them right up and they don't ever seem to record any data. So I stick with the CF cards.

02/23/2009 05:18:42 PM · #30
8 1/2 by 11 except when i do a wedding then i use legal size
 02/23/2009 05:19:15 PM · #31
1x8GB ExtremeIII and a 4GB ExtremeIII I will eventually get some more 4GB cards I have a very old 32mb card Compact Flash in my very old but mint Nikon 600, a 0.8MP camera.
 02/23/2009 05:21:11 PM · #32
Soon our cameras will have hard drives in them, and web access!
 02/23/2009 05:24:46 PM · #33
Just as a side note, I also have a 1GB xD card for my Olympus pp&s and several Memory Stick Duos I used for the family Cybershot (but they now collect dust in my PSP). AND I have a 128MB SmartMedia card (if anyone remembers those) in my Polaroid PDC 640.
 02/23/2009 05:31:17 PM · #34
Originally posted by Melethia:
I use the sorta square compact flash card. It's the size that fits in my camera. I tried a couple of those smaller cards but the slot just seems to swallow them right up and they don't ever seem to record any data. So I stick with the CF cards.


You too?? I thought maybe that was just an issue I had.

:P
 02/23/2009 08:26:05 PM · #35
Originally posted by MAK:
1x8GB ExtremeIII and a 4GB ExtremeIII I will eventually get some more 4GB cards I have a very old 32mb card Compact Flash in my very old but mint Nikon 600, a 0.8MP camera.


This might be useful

Sandisk ExtremeIII 4GB £20.99 at MyMemory

Just picked up 4 more plus a 16gb SD card for £100
02/23/2009 09:55:31 PM · #36
3x 4GBs; 2x 2GBs; a 2GB SD card for my P&S

The 2GBs are SanDisk; the rest all are Kingston's mid-level series, and they rock!

I've filled all the 4GBs once or twice while doing commercial work, but otherwise I'm usually good with just one or two of them in my 50D.

I use the 2GB cards in my 400D - they're plenty big enough.
 02/23/2009 11:44:36 PM · #37
Originally posted by Melethia:
I use the sorta square compact flash card. It's the size that fits in my camera. I tried a couple of those smaller cards but the slot just seems to swallow them right up and they don't ever seem to record any data. So I stick with the CF cards.


Yeah I thought that the Pro Duo card was able to be used in 2 different cameras, sadly it just sat there looking unhappy in my 40D :(

So I too, just use CF cards. I have 2-8GB cards that I use as my primary cards, 1-4GB card as my back up and a couple of 2GB cards. Last week I ordered but haven't received yet, a 16GB card. I'm hoping to have enough storage on cards to not need to bring my laptop with me on a trip to FL next week. 5 days and 40GB should hopefully be enough. I just recently started shooting RAW + Jpeg files so each image eats up space pretty quickly.
 02/24/2009 01:06:51 AM · #38
I use a 4G CF most of the time, it's good for 114 shots in RAW, or about 800 jpg, hi res, so I shoot jpg exclusively. I also have a couple of 2G and 1G, plus a couple of XD's that fit the other slot.
02/24/2009 10:14:01 AM · #39
I have 5 2gig CF cards. I get about 140 RAW shots
per card. I seldom fill a card except on a trip, which
due to the economy I never do any more. heheh

Now when the naked nymph marching parade files past
my home, I'll probably fill all the cards!!!
 02/24/2009 12:21:02 PM · #40
Originally posted by FireBird:
Now when the naked nymph marching parade files past
my home, I'll probably fill all the cards!!!


Wait... what?
 02/24/2009 01:24:04 PM · #41
Originally posted by Simms:
Originally posted by MAK:
1x8GB ExtremeIII and a 4GB ExtremeIII I will eventually get some more 4GB cards I have a very old 32mb card Compact Flash in my very old but mint Nikon 600, a 0.8MP camera.


This might be useful

Sandisk ExtremeIII 4GB £20.99 at MyMemory

Just picked up 4 more plus a 16gb SD card for £100


I must have been lucky - got 2 x these from Play.com for £15.99 each with free postage, and they were the newer 30 Mb/s versions... I just went back to link them here but they are now £23.99 !
 02/24/2009 01:32:47 PM · #42
before a few months ago i only had one 1gb card for everything i did! Including camping trips where I'd be out for days. I just got a new 4gb and a 2gb, which is basically infinite space for my purposes
 02/24/2009 01:41:57 PM · #43
I use two cards in my camera: One 16GB CF and one 8GB SD. They are configured as RAID 1 so that the camera mirror all the shots and makes a copy on each of the cards to give me a full back-up in case one of them fails.
 02/24/2009 02:32:44 PM · #44
I have some sort of unhealthy compulsion when it comes to buying memory cards. I have a 16GB, an 8GB, 9 of the 4GB, and a bunch of 2 and 1GB ones. I also have a handful of 256 and 128s, and to add to Jeb's aside, I still have a receipt around here somewhere after I paid over $100 for a 128MB card back around 2001! I can remember being excited about upgrading from a 64MB card.

I also still have a 16MB (that's megabyte) card that came with my Canon P&S.

Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Funny aside......I just came across the receipt for the D70s when I bought it and I paid $95.94 for the 1GB card.


Message edited by author 2009-02-24 14:33:25.
 02/24/2009 03:48:05 PM · #45
Originally posted by alanfreed:
I also still have a 16MB (that's megabyte) card that came with my Canon P&S.

See you and lower you eight -- I believe I still have an 8MB Smart Media card which came with my Olympus.

And before anyone makes any smart remarks about Smart Media cards, let me point out that they were one of the formats which passed both the "washing machine" and the "nail to a tree" tests ...
 02/24/2009 04:03:13 PM · #46
I haven't accidentally nailed one to a tree, but my 16GB CF card recently took a ride through both the washer and the dryer... and it seems to have made it unscathed!

Originally posted by GeneralE:
And before anyone makes any smart remarks about Smart Media cards, let me point out that they were one of the formats which passed both the "washing machine" and the "nail to a tree" tests ...
02/24/2009 04:05:59 PM · #47
It wasn't an accident -- some site or magazine deliberately nailed cards to a tree and then attempted to recover the files from them, among other tests. Actually, I think all but two of the card formats passed both tests ... but this was all some time ago.
 02/24/2009 04:15:38 PM · #48
Originally posted by alanfreed:
I haven't accidentally nailed one to a tree, but my 16GB CF card recently took a ride through both the washer and the dryer... and it seems to have made it unscathed!

Originally posted by GeneralE:
And before anyone makes any smart remarks about Smart Media cards, let me point out that they were one of the formats which passed both the "washing machine" and the "nail to a tree" tests ...


I can also attest to the CF card surviving a trip through the washer and dryer. That was almost a year ago, and the card still hasn't given me one problem!
 02/24/2009 04:42:01 PM · #49
It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it.
02/24/2009 04:43:59 PM · #50
Originally posted by Mick:
It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it.

That's what TrollWife keep telling me
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