How big is YOUR card ?

Darrell Larose writes:


My 1 GB CF crad holds 70 Pentax RAW files (* ist D)

Or 56 TIFF, or 909 at the lowest JPEG setting. Quite a range.

Charlie Self
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."
Edgar Bergen, (Charlie McCarthy)

On 6 Dec 2004 15:15:10 -0800, "
wrote:

1. What if you loose that one card? While on safari in central Africa?
Nothing for 500 miles?
2. What if the card breaks? While on safari etc.etc. It happens.
3. What if you forgot to take off the 799 shots of Brittany Spears
f#%&ing the mailman you happened to be in a position to take, and
Sasquatch walks by? Do you format the card?

Show him the Brittany pix and he might follow you home, where
you can take as many shots of him as you want. Or he'll run the other
way.

On 6 Dec 2004 15:15:10 -0800, "
wrote:

1. What if you loose that one card? While on safari in central Africa?
Nothing for 500 miles?
2. What if the card breaks? While on safari etc.etc. It happens.
3. What if you forgot to take off the 799 shots of Brittany Spears
f#%&ing the mailman you happened to be in a position to take, and
Sasquatch walks by? Do you format the card?

Show him the Brittany pix and he might follow you home, where
you can take as many shots of him as you want. Or he'll run the other
way.

"Annika1980" wrote in message
...
From: Eric Gill

Lyra is essentially the same thing, only with a 3.8" viewscreen, TV out,
music, video and pic playback, and a (substantially) higher pricetag.

For brute-force gobs of portable storage, the X-Drive is a good choice,
especially since you can buy your own drive mechanism. Upgradeability is
not a feature of any of the players.

Also check out Epson's new digital wallet.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/re...s/P-2000.shtml



Thanks for that, Bret, it looks like a solution...

--
Skip Middleton
http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com

"Annika1980" wrote in message
...
From: Eric Gill

Lyra is essentially the same thing, only with a 3.8" viewscreen, TV out,
music, video and pic playback, and a (substantially) higher pricetag.

For brute-force gobs of portable storage, the X-Drive is a good choice,
especially since you can buy your own drive mechanism. Upgradeability is
not a feature of any of the players.

Also check out Epson's new digital wallet.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/re...s/P-2000.shtml



Thanks for that, Bret, it looks like a solution...

--
Skip Middleton
http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com

TheNewsGuy(Mike) wrote:

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:16:24 GMT, Ken Weitzel
wrote:



The Peter Principle works nicely here - "things will
expand to fill the space available for their storage"


Don't think that is the PP.
========
Peter Principle -- In an organization an individual will rise to his
level of incompetence.


pssst.. that's the wrong peter.




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TheNewsGuy(Mike) wrote:

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:16:24 GMT, Ken Weitzel
wrote:



The Peter Principle works nicely here - "things will
expand to fill the space available for their storage"


Don't think that is the PP.
========
Peter Principle -- In an organization an individual will rise to his
level of incompetence.


pssst.. that's the wrong peter.




--
jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'

Mark² wrote:

"tomcas" wrote in message
...

Marcel wrote:

You don't want to change cards or worry about the numbers. You take your
shots, whatever the number. You cull afterwards, yet you want to review

the

best shots later and the more shots you have, the better your chances of
getting great souvenirs.
Marcel

You have a good point but it can be risky putting all your souvenirs in
one basket.


Sometimes it works the other way though...

Which is safer to carry?...

...A dozen eggs you must juggle in the air...or a basket that holds them
all?

Sometimes the basket is precisely what you should use.

When shooting wildlife, or at the beach, or in the rain, or on the
sidelines, or in the crowds, etc. etc.... Pulling tiny little drives out of
sensitive equipment is the LAST things one should have to do with
regularity. More often than not, I find security in NOT having to expose
lots of little cards to the endless shuffling through the mayh dangerous
environments (to cards, at least) we find ourselves shooting in.

Keeping my card safe INSIDE my camera often outweighs the "benefit" of lots
of little cards I may lose or destroy in teh endless fiddling...not to
mention the SHOTS I will inevitably MISS because I've once again run out of
space at the critical moment.

The BEST solution...is as follows (even if not the most economical):

Many LARGE cards.
This way, you can shoot non-stop in those fast paced moments where you HAVE
to get the shot...but can opt for removing/replacing the card even BEFORE it
is full if you're worried about data loss.

Personally...when you can buy 1GB sanDisk cards for $69 at costco, I think
even the multiple-big solution is even economically sound.
-Mark




Heck, I don't even have to do this (yet), and I agree 110% because,
knowing me the way I do, it all makes sense for all the right reaons.

--
jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'

Mark² wrote:

"tomcas" wrote in message
...

Marcel wrote:

You don't want to change cards or worry about the numbers. You take your
shots, whatever the number. You cull afterwards, yet you want to review

the

best shots later and the more shots you have, the better your chances of
getting great souvenirs.
Marcel

You have a good point but it can be risky putting all your souvenirs in
one basket.


Sometimes it works the other way though...

Which is safer to carry?...

...A dozen eggs you must juggle in the air...or a basket that holds them
all?

Sometimes the basket is precisely what you should use.

When shooting wildlife, or at the beach, or in the rain, or on the
sidelines, or in the crowds, etc. etc.... Pulling tiny little drives out of
sensitive equipment is the LAST things one should have to do with
regularity. More often than not, I find security in NOT having to expose
lots of little cards to the endless shuffling through the mayh dangerous
environments (to cards, at least) we find ourselves shooting in.

Keeping my card safe INSIDE my camera often outweighs the "benefit" of lots
of little cards I may lose or destroy in teh endless fiddling...not to
mention the SHOTS I will inevitably MISS because I've once again run out of
space at the critical moment.

The BEST solution...is as follows (even if not the most economical):

Many LARGE cards.
This way, you can shoot non-stop in those fast paced moments where you HAVE
to get the shot...but can opt for removing/replacing the card even BEFORE it
is full if you're worried about data loss.

Personally...when you can buy 1GB sanDisk cards for $69 at costco, I think
even the multiple-big solution is even economically sound.
-Mark




Heck, I don't even have to do this (yet), and I agree 110% because,
knowing me the way I do, it all makes sense for all the right reaons.

--
jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'

"Charlie Self" wrote in message
...
Darrell Larose writes:


My 1 GB CF crad holds 70 Pentax RAW files (* ist D)

Or 56 TIFF, or 909 at the lowest JPEG setting. Quite a range.

Actually at 1536x1024(s) "good" quality it will store 2832 images, in comic
book quality However I normally shoot RAW, or once and a while highest
quality JPEG.