On Thu, Jan 31, 2013, Stan Halpin wrote: > 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.
Okay, so you do pop the card out to download -- that wasn't clear from your previous post. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- 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.
