On Jan 31, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013, Stan Halpin wrote: >> >> 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. > > How do you back up your day's shooting? > --
Download to my laptop (using LR) with a backup to an external hard drive. Depending on card capacity, how many cards I have with me, what is up the next day, etc. I may just put the card back in the camera or I may store it and put in a fresh card. At the end of a trip I would like to have three copies of everything: laptop hard drive, external hard drive, and originals on the card(s). If I am running short of space on the card(s) I'll go ahead and reformat one or two but I try to avoid that just to be safe. 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.
