On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:49 AM, David Savage <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/3/22 Doug Franklin <[email protected]>: >> Bill Owens wrote: >>> >>> While surfing for another battery and charger for my Optio MX, I saw >>> listed a 16Gb sdhc card for 32.xx USD. Remarkable when only a few >>> years ago RAM sa selling for $50.00 or more fore a mere MB. I may >>> pickup a 4 or 6 Gig card for recording high school band concerts. >> >> A full 4 GB card is three or four hundred PEFs, and a truly ungodly number >> of JPGs, all ready to be lost at the same time in one tiny little package. >> :-) > > This argument is starting to loose some of the shine for me. > > Do you store your data on your computer spread over many small HD's? > > With the advent of RAW & now DSLR's with HD video capabilities, these > larger cards make more sense IMHO. > > That said, my largest card is only 8GB. > > DS >
Flash has a much higher failure rate than HDD's. And generally you don't have redundant copies on flash (My archive is mirrored) unless you're shooting Nikon D3/D3x's with their dual CF slots. I stick to 4GB for now. But even that was a bit ridiculous for 6MP stuff (I got something like 450 RAW's from the D40 on a 4GB card). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
