On Apr 20, 2006, at 4:48 AM, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
I wasn't *really* in need of more camera memory (already had
2x512MB, 1x1GB), but since I'm planning on doing some hiking this
summer and I shoot RAW, I figure it'd be pretty likely I'd fire up
more than 200 pictures during an overnight hiking trip (in
Alaska). I'm *NOT* lugging a laptop up a mountain!
"how much is enough?"
Been studying this a while. Week by week, I rarely need more than one
1G card because I dump stuff to the computer every evening and 95
exposures is enough for any given walk/session. In a long day I might
use two.
When I travel, I like to have a 1G card in the camera and 4-6 G of
backup storage on cards. That lets me run 400-500 exposures before I
dump to the P2000 storage unit or laptop. Plenty of overhead, I
rarely use more than half of it before moving the exposures, but I
have just once filled five cards and started on the sixth.
Godfrey
