On Jan 31, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Bruce and PDMLer Friends, That is the question: why buy 16 GB >> Cards when you can't fill it up in a shoot?? > > 1) I don't like to delete files from cards during a vacation, even > after I've copied them to the laptop. So larger cards mean fewer cards > to store, switching less often, etc. Since I back up to the laptop > daily, I'm not too worried about losing more than a day's photos at > once, which is one of the most common objections to large cards. > ...
Ditto. People have mentioned a concern with "losing" cards as a reason to go with smaller cards, thereby minimizing the quantity of images that might be lost. I have two thoughts about that. First, if it is a 32GB or 64GB card in the camera and I almost certainly won't fill the card in one day of vacation/travel shooting, then the card stays in the camera all day. The only way to lose it is to lose the camera. If it is a smaller capacity card that I need to swap out during the day, then there would be more chance of physically losing or damaging the card during or after a card swap. The second kind of "lose" of images could be from a failure of the SD card itself. Again, I assume that less handling of the cards will reduce the chance of causing damage to the cards, and again the strategy of "big card, don't swap" makes sense to me. stan -- 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.
