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Post by Ivor E Tower on Jun 6, 2023 20:23:32 GMT
I have one card per camera slot and a few spares (SD and CF).... but not XQD for my used D500 I bought a few years back (pre-covid). At the price that they still are, I have just one additional XQD bought used. I'm another of those who takes the acrds at the end of a trip, copies the images to a computer, makes a backup copy on an external drive then put the card back into the camera and re-formats it
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Post by peterba on Jun 6, 2023 20:31:33 GMT
If I've a particularly valuable set of images I'll keep them in the card as another backup and buy a new card.
Likewise. SD cards are good as reasonably inexpensive, convenient back-up.
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Post by davem399 on Jun 6, 2023 21:06:38 GMT
In addition to quite a few SD cards of various capacities and a couple of XQDs, I still have two XD cards that fitted my old FujiFilm Finepix S304.
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Post by geoffr on Jun 6, 2023 21:09:38 GMT
The response I got on DPR one might have thought I had two heads. Seems very common to own just one CFexpress/XQD card and format it after each photographic outing.
I started digital photography with a microdrive (1GB), I still have it, not that I can use it anymore, I don’t have a device it will fit.
Back in 2003 cards were expensive so I bought a couple when I could afford them. I never really trusted the microdrive hence additional cards. Since then I’ve just kept spare cards. I did a few calculations and discovered that to replace my XQD cards with CFexpress versions and a compatible reader would cost anything up to £2,000. I didn’t pay anything like that much.
I can see why people buy just the one or two and just recycle them after every use. I always fill mine up before reusing them, another throw back, it used to be considered good practice as it kept the read/write cycles down. I don’t think that is much of a consideration now.
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Post by nickr on Jun 6, 2023 21:15:56 GMT
In addition to quite a few SD cards of various capacities and a couple of XQDs, I still have two XD cards that fitted my old FujiFilm Finepix S304. I've still got a few SmartMedia cards for my Olympus 3000Z. Horrible things. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2023 21:20:03 GMT
I do not have any need for XQD or CFexpress cards so most of mine are CF or SD. I have several but not enough for all my card slots. I very rarely fill a card as I usually download and delete or reformat after a few outings.
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Post by peterba on Jun 7, 2023 5:47:24 GMT
The response I got on DPR one might have thought I had two heads.
I'm not a member of DPR, and know of it only through hearsay..... but isn't that one of those places substantially inhabited by people who could start a fight in an empty room?
Besides, it's plainly obvious to members on here that you haven't lost one of your heads.   |
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Post by geoffr on Jun 7, 2023 6:13:48 GMT
The response I got on DPR one might have thought I had two heads.
I'm not a member of DPR, and know of it only through hearsay..... but isn't that one of those places substantially inhabited by people who could start a fight in an empty room?
Besides, it's plainly obvious to members on here that you haven't lost one of your heads. Yes, it only takes one DPR member to sustain an argument.
Be careful, I rarely pick up hitchhikers...
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Post by John Farrell on Jun 7, 2023 6:17:35 GMT
To get back to the topic - I have 2 SD cards, one in each camera. I also have an MMC card from an ancient Canon digital.
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Post by spinno on Jun 7, 2023 7:24:42 GMT
The response I got on DPR one might have thought I had two heads.
I'm not a member of DPR, and know of it only through hearsay..... but isn't that one of those places substantially inhabited by people who could start a fight in an empty room?
Besides, it's plainly obvious to members on here that you haven't lost one of your heads. I am a member on DPR, they don't mind GAS but object to (un)common sense |
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Post by El Sid on Jun 7, 2023 12:13:22 GMT
I've no idea how many cards I own - but it's probably too many... When I first started with digital I had 4x 256MB CF cards for my D30 as they were rather more affordable (and common) than anything larger. As I moved on to a 20D then a 40D I ended up with larger 2 & 4GB cards. I also have two 8GB cards for my 5D. I guess I have 10 or 12 CF cards though the old 256MB ones don't really get used now. I have fewer SD cards though as modern cards tend to be much larger capacity and I can easily get away with 1 card per body as it seems to take weeks to fill a card these days. |
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Post by nickr on Jun 7, 2023 12:37:34 GMT
I'm not a member of DPR, and know of it only through hearsay..... but isn't that one of those places substantially inhabited by people who could start a fight in an empty room?
Besides, it's plainly obvious to members on here that you haven't lost one of your heads. I am a member on DPR, they don't mind GAS but object to (un)common sense I've been a member there for years. There are some great people, and sometimes it's very helpful. On the other hand, it has far more than its fair share of idiots and loons, people who insist it's not possible to take a photo of any kind without the latest and greatest kit, that anything else is worse than useless, and so on. I keep having to take a break for it for my sanity, but then there are the good bits... And at times, I've known some of the senior editorial staff there. Simon Joinson, who I helped out with on the WDC Forums many years ago, and Barney Britton, former AP testing guru. What they thought of some of the nutters I don't know - or perhaps I do. |
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Post by zx9 on Jun 7, 2023 18:05:49 GMT
I have a couple of 128 GB cards, one in the EOS M6 the other in the Leica M 240 and a 64GB card in the GoPro-Alike plus countless 4 GB or less cards that are now laughable small and un used, the smallest is a Canon branded 16MB (? I can't check as I am not at home) card which came with my G9 and allowed one or two test shots with your new camera.
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Post by Chester PB on Jun 7, 2023 20:31:23 GMT
I only own, and use, one card. Should I feel worried, or merely content that I have all the cards I need?
After copying images to PC PC's hard disc, I then use the PC's operating system to delete them from the SD card whilst the camera body is still attached to the PC, and finally detach the camera body and reformat the card from the camera menu.
Hence the card is never at risk of damage whilst being inserted or removed from the camera body.
Works reliably for me.
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Post by Ivor E Tower on Jun 7, 2023 21:26:03 GMT
I also have some smartmedia cards somewhere for a long-dead Sharp digicam that came free with a computer many years aso, and some xD cards for some older Fuji P&S cameras that I had years ago
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