Your going to get all kinds of advice. On Name brand vs. "generic" brands. You'll hear people swear by one or the other. There are not enough photographers here that buy enough cards for any of their experience to be statically valid. So, most people are really working on gut feel and superstition. Once you have a card failure from any brand, it's unlikely you'll buy that brand again. All brands.eventually have failures. I prefer to buy from a company that stands behind their products and is worried about losing their reputation. That is most of them.
These days, cards are one of the least expensive parts of your kit. Plan for replacing them with bigger, faster cards in the future. The next time you buy a camera body it will likely require a faster card to maximize performance. My personal strategy, is simple. When I need a new card, I buy the biggest, fastest card I can get for under $100 from the local camera shop. They don't like to sell stuff that gives them trouble and they want to see me come back for happy reasons, not to exchange a bad card. My newest cards are 32 Gbytes. That's a capacity of about 400 raw files. That usually covers about 2-3 hours of event shooting. I carry two 32Gbyte cards to an event with a couple of "just in case" spares in a Think Tank card wallet. Empties are label up. Filled cards are label down. My camera has two card slots. Once is CF the other is SD. I shoot raw+jpeg. Raw files go to the CF card, JPEG files go to the SD card. That gives me one level of in-camera backup and if I have an immediate need for jpegs at the event, they are ready to go. I don't generally shoot video, but I buy cards that are fast enough to handle it "just in case" I want to. Other than events, I seldom fill a 32 gig card. That works for me, for events. Your needs will be different. So, my advice, buy something of adequate size and speed for your needs from a reputable dealer that wants to keep your business. Don't spend a fortune and don't buy the cheapest card. Don't waste to much time worrying about it. Get out there and shoot. GS George Sinos -------------------- [email protected] www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
