When I go hiking to mountains for few days - I only take my 2 x 2 GB cards. Every gram is important :-)
Peter B. 2005/10/14, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > Thanks to a certain list member ;-), I am now enabled with Compact Drive > PD7X. Wonderful little creature - can charge your batteries, can read > your cards, can copy them onto its internal hard drive. All in all, now > I have 12 GB more of space that I can take with me. > > Here comes the question. > > Say, I am a shooter shooting somewhere on some location. I have my two > trusty 1 GB SandDisk cards and my quite reliable PD7X. One card is > filled, I plug it to PD7X and load the other card to the camera. Then I > repeat this "trick" when the second card is filled and so on. > > Here is the question. Why on earth I would want to buy a 8GB compact > flash (for serious money) if I can buy a couple of 1 GBs and as much as > 80GB hard drive for PD7X? > > I am not talking about extreme conditions or shooting with MF digital > back. I am talking about regular amateur shooting with 6-8 MP camera on > his vacation or some other favorite photo location of his. > > What do you say? > > Boris
