2009/3/22 Adam Maas <[email protected]>: > 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.
Well yes there is that. > 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). I've missed some shots recently because I've been caught out changing cards (2GB & 4GB) during the action. That's why I got my first 8GB card, and will from now on be my minimum card size for new card purchases. Cheers, Dave -- 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.
