How big is YOUR card ?

"Charlie Self" wrote in message
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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.

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:16:17 GMT,
(TheNewsGuy(Mike)) wrote:



Anyway I am taking four CF card to Hawaii next month. Always want
backup.


I'd call it paranoia.

I'm only taking 2 x 1Gb CF cards and a lap top with a 160Gb external
drive to NZ.... And 2 camera bodies....
Pete S.

www.derwentelec.clara.co.uk

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:16:17 GMT,
(TheNewsGuy(Mike)) wrote:



Anyway I am taking four CF card to Hawaii next month. Always want
backup.


I'd call it paranoia.

I'm only taking 2 x 1Gb CF cards and a lap top with a 160Gb external
drive to NZ.... And 2 camera bodies....
Pete S.

www.derwentelec.clara.co.uk

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:16:17 GMT,
(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.

-or-

Parkinson's Law -- Work will always expand to fill the time available
for its completion.
=======

Anyway I am taking four CF card to Hawaii next month. Always want
backup.

If you see Brett there, give him a slap. Not that he particularly
deserves it, but you'll feel better and so will I.

--
Owamanga!

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:16:17 GMT,
(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.

-or-

Parkinson's Law -- Work will always expand to fill the time available
for its completion.
=======

Anyway I am taking four CF card to Hawaii next month. Always want
backup.

If you see Brett there, give him a slap. Not that he particularly
deserves it, but you'll feel better and so will I.

--
Owamanga!

wrote:
....
Seriously, I carry a 512MB (~150 pics with my camera on "super-high
quality" JPEG), and a 256MB and a very old 96MB as spares. And I've
used them all on numerous occasions.


Me too (haven't read that chestnut in a long while.)
But seriously, I also use a 512MB and carry spares of 256MB, 126MB,
and even the 32MB that came with my first digital camera.

Also, you might want to increase the resolution of the pics you're
taking, if possible. You only get one chance to take a picture; you
should make it as good a shot as possible (within reason, of course -
RAW may take too long). You won't get a chance to go back and shoot
that exact same moment again.....


Agree with the "too long". With the cam I got, the max
resolution takes
so long to read to the card, I see three or four shots passing by, forever
missed. The next level down is noticably faster and I rarely notice
a substantial difference of the same scene taken both ways.
(Yes, with more money I could get a faster cam, but I deficit like
a government as it is ...)

But that last line grabs me - there are at least three pictures I
missed
for one reason or another (no camera; out of film; shutter not cocked
when I
thought it was) - and I remember the missed shots more strongly
than many that I did get. The images in my mind of missed shots also
seem more vivid and meaningful than even the beautiful ones I did
capture - those are frozen 'as is'. The mental images are only stored
in my head, but can't be altered by cropping, printing, mounting, etc.
The next advance in imaging technology ought to be transferring mental
images into digital. Can you imagine your dreams automatically
recorded on hard drive?

wrote:
....
Seriously, I carry a 512MB (~150 pics with my camera on "super-high
quality" JPEG), and a 256MB and a very old 96MB as spares. And I've
used them all on numerous occasions.


Me too (haven't read that chestnut in a long while.)
But seriously, I also use a 512MB and carry spares of 256MB, 126MB,
and even the 32MB that came with my first digital camera.

Also, you might want to increase the resolution of the pics you're
taking, if possible. You only get one chance to take a picture; you
should make it as good a shot as possible (within reason, of course -
RAW may take too long). You won't get a chance to go back and shoot
that exact same moment again.....


Agree with the "too long". With the cam I got, the max
resolution takes
so long to read to the card, I see three or four shots passing by, forever
missed. The next level down is noticably faster and I rarely notice
a substantial difference of the same scene taken both ways.
(Yes, with more money I could get a faster cam, but I deficit like
a government as it is ...)

But that last line grabs me - there are at least three pictures I
missed
for one reason or another (no camera; out of film; shutter not cocked
when I
thought it was) - and I remember the missed shots more strongly
than many that I did get. The images in my mind of missed shots also
seem more vivid and meaningful than even the beautiful ones I did
capture - those are frozen 'as is'. The mental images are only stored
in my head, but can't be altered by cropping, printing, mounting, etc.
The next advance in imaging technology ought to be transferring mental
images into digital. Can you imagine your dreams automatically
recorded on hard drive?

Oh baby.

I've got four 1GB which get's me through the day with either my 300D or 1D.

Oh baby.

I've got four 1GB which get's me through the day with either my 300D or 1D.

"Annika1980" wrote in message
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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

Why not simply tether the camera to a unit with a 80 GB Hard drive? Now
someone go take the credit for my idea and make a lot of money.