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wrote: I see plug-in cards sized anywhere from 64meg to 512meg. Any reason to have half-dozen small cards ? ( or any spares at all ? ) I found a 512meg SD card on sale.... When I plugged it in, my camera announced I now had capacity for 800+ pictures. Unless you're taking pics for the high school graduating class, would there be reason for any more ( spare ) cards ? ......so much to learn...... ;o) Hi... The Peter Principle works nicely here - "things will expand to fill the space available for their storage" Yes, have several. Perhaps one large (relatively expensive) one, and a few smaller ones. If you should lose one, as a recent poster did, you haven't lost everything. If one should fail, as all things sooner or later do, you won't have lost everything. And if you're fortunate enough to live in a wonderful community such as mine, you'll have "loaners". Whichever of your relatives or neighbors is going off on vacation gets to take them all - except for one of the smaller ones you keep on hand for local photo ops. Just my opinion. Ken |
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"RJ" wrote in message
... I see plug-in cards sized anywhere from 64meg to 512meg. Any reason to have half-dozen small cards ? ( or any spares at all ? ) I found a 512meg SD card on sale.... When I plugged it in, my camera announced I now had capacity for 800+ pictures. Unless you're taking pics for the high school graduating class, would there be reason for any more ( spare ) cards ? ......so much to learn...... ;o) rj It depends on what image quality setting you have your camera on, and what its max resolution is. My 8mp 20D gets about 260 images on a 1 Gig card at Lg/Fine JPEG, and about 110 on RAW, 1000 on sm/normal. If your camera is about 5mp and you have it on small/normal, you may get 800+ images on a 512meg card. Set your res higher, you'll get better pics, and utilize the size of the card. Capacities are guesses based on my D30/256m card and 20D/1g card. -- Skip Middleton http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com |
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"RJ" wrote in message
... I see plug-in cards sized anywhere from 64meg to 512meg. Any reason to have half-dozen small cards ? ( or any spares at all ? ) I found a 512meg SD card on sale.... When I plugged it in, my camera announced I now had capacity for 800+ pictures. Unless you're taking pics for the high school graduating class, would there be reason for any more ( spare ) cards ? ......so much to learn...... ;o) rj It depends on what image quality setting you have your camera on, and what its max resolution is. My 8mp 20D gets about 260 images on a 1 Gig card at Lg/Fine JPEG, and about 110 on RAW, 1000 on sm/normal. If your camera is about 5mp and you have it on small/normal, you may get 800+ images on a 512meg card. Set your res higher, you'll get better pics, and utilize the size of the card. Capacities are guesses based on my D30/256m card and 20D/1g card. -- Skip Middleton http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com |
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I have SanDisk Ultra II in 512 MB, and 1 GB at this time will probably buy a
few more shortly.. "RJ" wrote in message ... I see plug-in cards sized anywhere from 64meg to 512meg. Any reason to have half-dozen small cards ? ( or any spares at all ? ) I found a 512meg SD card on sale.... When I plugged it in, my camera announced I now had capacity for 800+ pictures. Unless you're taking pics for the high school graduating class, would there be reason for any more ( spare ) cards ? ......so much to learn...... ;o) rj |
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I have SanDisk Ultra II in 512 MB, and 1 GB at this time will probably buy a
few more shortly.. "RJ" wrote in message ... I see plug-in cards sized anywhere from 64meg to 512meg. Any reason to have half-dozen small cards ? ( or any spares at all ? ) I found a 512meg SD card on sale.... When I plugged it in, my camera announced I now had capacity for 800+ pictures. Unless you're taking pics for the high school graduating class, would there be reason for any more ( spare ) cards ? ......so much to learn...... ;o) rj |
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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. |
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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. |
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"RJ" wrote in message ... I see plug-in cards sized anywhere from 64meg to 512meg. Any reason to have half-dozen small cards ? ( or any spares at all ? ) I found a 512meg SD card on sale.... When I plugged it in, my camera announced I now had capacity for 800+ pictures. Unless you're taking pics for the high school graduating class, would there be reason for any more ( spare ) cards ? ......so much to learn...... ;o) 6 months post graduation travel in Europe. rj |
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