How big a card is everyone using

[12sndsgood]

I had been using 8 gig cardsa and stepping up to the D7000 im getting close to 200 photos per card. With the added slot I am using the second card in backup duties so I don't lose any action. Since im using dual cards, I am thinking I should move up into the 16 gig range. ive picked up two 16 gig cards to use, I was just curious what everyeone else is using.

 

[Compaq]

2x4 gigs

The important point for me is that I have two, instead of one. One in camera, one in bag. That way I never forget my cards (again!)

 

[Alex_B]

one 32 G CF (roughly takes 1000 images) and four 16 G.

 

[Alex_B]

But this is not really "foundations of photography" or "beyond the basics"

 

[Overread19 7]

A lot of it depends on the camera itself and on if you shoot RAW or JPEG. My 400D, 10mp I can happily run with 2*4GB memory cards shooting RAW all day without worries. My 7D at 18mp and I've pushed up to a faster 16GB card which also cost even more because of having a faster write to time (video and faster shooting in RAW mode).

I'll probably add another 16GB card to the 7D in time as well.

I think a 36MP camera would be needing something in the region of a 32GB card (yes they do exist but at 32GB potential per day that's filling up even a 1TB hard drive pretty darn fast). We could soon see the MP war taking us back - back to the days where you did have to worry about every shot you take because you'll only be able to work with a few of them and keep them; rather than the spray and forget shooting digital has encouraged at present (ps that isn't any measure of skill, but more a mention of being limited or not by storage into how many shots you can potentially take).



*thread moved to equipment talk*

 

[12sndsgood]

So far right now I have been shooting in the highest RAw+jpg setting. Might just dump the jpg addition at this point in time. I figure you can always tone the size down but can't make it bigger. And allthough I have never had a card fail when me and my buddy went out last summer for a day of shooting, we came back and found out his card had screwed up and he lost all of his images.



And sorry for the wrong thread location, I'm kinda doing several things at once today and didn't put much thought into which section to throw this in.

 

[KmH]

I about went nuts if a 36 frame roll of film got hosed somehow.

I don't think I could handle losing 200+ shots in one fell swoop, let alone 400+.

I was getting 225 or so 14-bit Raw files on a 4GB card in a 12 MP D300 or D3.

Camera memory cards aren't intended to be used as storage. Plus they are relatively inexpensive.

Stick with the 8 GB cards. Take the time to switch and manage your memory cards.

 

[12sndsgood]

Yeah, he had came down for the weekend, and we basically spent and entire day just hitting up several diffrent spots. felt so bad for him to come back with nothing.

Curently I have 2-16gig cards. and 6-8gig cards. so i could get close to 1000 shots with backup from a day. I think that should be good for anything i'm doing that is important enough that I feel I need backup.

 

[Compaq]

I lost a 36 exp roll of film earlier this year - the feeling was horrid. I only use the film camera for snapping friends when we're doing stuff, and I really wanted those shots. The film was returned to me a few days later, after laying out in snow.

I think I'd be pretty mad for losing a memory card, but not because I'm losing photos - I would have to buy a new one!

 

[DorkSterr]

One 32 GB XQD, and one 64GB Sandisk extreme pro CF.

 

[SCraig]

I use (2) 32gb cards in my D7000 with backup from card 1 to card 2 enabled. I use a single 16gb card in my D90. I seldom take them out of the camera, copy from the camera to my computer (not via a card reader), and normally reformat them each time I remove the photographs from them. If I'm on a trip I swap cards each day, and, if possible, backup everything to a laptop.

 

[slackercruster]

2, 4, 8.

I have Pentax 6-12 mp cameras.

 

[480sparky44 43]

I chose 16 gig for both slots of my D7000. I shoot raw 99.95% of the time, and one card will easily hold what I shoot in a day. Shooting with both cards allows me a full days' backup without having to get to a computer.

 

[rgregory1965]

I have class 10 16g cards in both slots of my D7000 and a class 6 16 gig in my bag for back up.

 

[Josh220]

I use four 4GB cards so my images are split up in case one corrupts. I will probably pick up some 8GB cards before I head to Hawaii this summer. I wouldn't personally go higher than 8GB though. It's easier to take 5 seconds to swap a card than to try recovering pictures from a corrupted card.