Do you want a Half a terabyte SD Card???....

As said … eggs and baskets. Like Joe, I use 16 GB cards. And that's with my 36 MP
Nikon D800E! I can't image filling a 500 GB with still images!

Even shooting video, SLRs would have trouble filling a 500 MB - the Nikon D800E has a maximum video length of 4 GB (= 20 minutes), a half terra card would need over 40 hours of video to fill!

Excessivly large SD cards are just willy waving - unless you have a very specialised need!
 
This size sd card.. I suspect has been designed for the 4k video crowd. I can't imagine a non-video application right now for this size sd card... My biggest raw file is between 46 to 59mb (size varies due to size of the FINE jpg embedded in raw file) from the dp2 Quattro. I am fine w/ using 8 and 16gb 95mbs cards. I would rather spread the possible damage issues associated w/ a corrupted or lost sd card.

Gary
 
Once it is there, people will find a way to fill it much sooner than estimated. I've seen similar comments about 16GB cards not all that long ago... :)
 
However.. Back when 16gb cards just started coming out..24mp sensor were not as popular..if I remember correctly.. However now we have raw files that exceed 36mb.. I am glad I don't shoot video very often. 1080p is going to eat up a lot of sd card space.. But 4k video eats it much much faster depending on the codec and frame rate.

Gary
 
Just a note about all your eggs in one basket:

A friend just got from his honeymoon to find that the photographer had lost all of his portrait photos from the wedding, including the family photos, an entire night of shooting because of a corrupted SD card.

Switching between a lot of little cards is the best way to go!

Of course, the term "little" is relative and so at one point, our sensors will take gigapixel images and 512g memory cards will be small.
 
No, I don't.

In fact I am looking for a new desktop PC and want 1Tb of disk space, but I want (4) 250Gb drives, not (1) 1Tb drive (for the same reason I don't use large SD cards).
 
My largest card is a 16GB, and likely staying that way for quite a while. I don't care for video, or storing everything I shoot on one card. Though I'm sure the video guys are all over this. For them it makes a lot of sense.
 
I remember a decade ago, 2004, as a kid, purchasing with my uncle a 512MB SD card for 70€. Quite a lot!
Nowadays good 16gb cards go for 15€, which is nice, and for stills and little snapshot video it is plenty for my use
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Jack Sparrow said:
My largest card is a 16GB, and likely staying that way for quite a while. I don't care for video, or storing everything I shoot on one card. Though I'm sure the video guys are all over this. For them it makes a lot of sense.
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Agreed on that.
Video needs a lot of space, even with 720p HD video I was surprised at file sizes. Can't imagine proper (low/no compression) HD and 4K.
 
jkrumsick said:
Just a note about all your eggs in one basket:

A friend just got from his honeymoon to find that the photographer had lost all of his portrait photos from the wedding, including the family photos, an entire night of shooting because of a corrupted SD card.

Switching between a lot of little cards is the best way to go!

Of course, the term "little" is relative and so at one point, our sensors will take gigapixel images and 512g memory cards will be small.
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Argh. This is just careless. Working pros, at least those using DSLRs, should be shooting to dual cards at once IMHO. Most (all?) full-frame "pro" bodies do this. I know, hindsight is 20:20, but along with your suggestion of switching cards, this is one easy precaution that every working pro ought to take. At a minimum, shooting RAW to one card and jpg to the second at the same time, which most high-end cameras are capable of.

Back to the question at hand - I might use a 512 Gb card as an archive/backup of photos. SD cards are so teeny tiny that this might make a nice option for a second backup - put everything on it and mail it to your mother/brother/friend for an off-site backup that doesn't take up any of their space.

I'd never put one in my camera though. What would be the point? Re-formatting cards once in a while is a good idea, so there's not really much purpose in having such a huge card (unless, as noted above, shooting HD video). IMHO of course.
 
But I don't know that using such a large SD card could have drawbacks... If, say, you copied the recent "take" to other media periodically it might be useful to have this original copy available. I use a 16Gb card in a camera that makes 76Mb DNG files and don't feel the need for a larger card. No harm in having a larger card, right? I do carry a spare card on a day-long shoot though.

Mentioning mailing an SD card reminds me that when I bought a used M9 the seller forgot to send the offered card along too, and subsequently mailed it. He just put it in a regular business envelope... but it was just thick enough to jam in the USPS letter sorting facility and the machinery ripped the envelope losing the card. So mailing it like that didn't work out well!
 
A card that large is senseless for me at present and, as someone else pointed out, likely only really useful for 4K video capture at the present time. That said, there's nothing inherently wrong with the capacity. It's just in excess of what's actually needed for still photography, that's all.

At one time, I was standardized on 2G cards. Then my next generation of cameras appeared and I standardized on 8G cards. Then 16G. Now 32G. In a decade's worth of shooting with a bunch of cameras and cards of all these different capacities (over 300,000 exposures with Canon, Pentax, Panasonic, Nikon, Olympus, Ricoh, Sony, and Leica digital cameras), I have not yet experienced a single card failure. Not one damaged exposure.

I always buy quality cards. I always format them in the camera I'm going to use them in. After a shooting session, I copy their contents to my computer and reformat them. That's it, no secrets, no mysteries. I treat them the same as I do all my camera equipment, with respect and without abuse, but I use them a lot. They just work.

Anyone who is losing files, has problems with cameras or cards, etc, is being sloppy in their craft. Or abusing their equipment in ways that aren't sensible. IMO, of course.

G
 
Doug said:
But I don't know that using such a large SD card could have drawbacks... If, say, you copied the recent "take" to other media periodically it might be useful to have this original copy available. I use a 16Gb card in a camera that makes 76Mb DNG files and don't feel the need for a larger card. No harm in having a larger card, right? I do carry a spare card on a day-long shoot though.

Mentioning mailing an SD card reminds me that when I bought a used M9 the seller forgot to send the offered card along too, and subsequently mailed it. He just put it in a regular business envelope... but it was just thick enough to jam in the USPS letter sorting facility and the machinery ripped the envelope losing the card. So mailing it like that didn't work out well!
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That's a dumb way to mail a storage card. At the very least, they should be placed into a rigid document mailer, enclosed in static-resistant packing.

G
 
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