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

[randolph45]

8 gig cards for me, I don't like too much on one card.

 

[OurManInTangier]

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.

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I have to say that is my experience from working to pretty much the same practices since switching to digital back in 2000.

However here I have to disagree slightly simply to allow luck to play its part - if there's the slightest room for something to go wrong then at some point it probably will


I would always suggest getting your hands on a decent image retrieval program regardless of whether you're professional or not. I've used mine to retrieve so many images from friends holidays or my wife's classroom displays and its surprisingly rare in my experience not to retrieve pretty much every image thought lost. It's also there if I were to need to retrieve some of my work images should the practices mentioned above fail for some reason.

Also, using smaller capacity cards in greater numbers is a good plan, just don't misplace some of the cards.😀

 

[sevo]

I have to say that is my experience from working to pretty much the same practices since switching to digital back in 2000.

Same here. That said, I have gone over to using cards like film for professional purposes - that is, using them once and shelving the 'exposed' cards for future reference. This gives me an extra backup, and a perfect base for forensic proof of my authorship if it should ever be disputed.

 

[OurManInTangier]

Same here. That said, I have gone over to using cards like film for professional purposes - that is, using them once and shelving the 'exposed' cards for future reference. This gives me an extra backup, and a perfect base for forensic proof of my authorship if it should ever be disputed.

Thats an interesting idea. An extra cost no doubt but the benefits could outweigh the added costs. Any ideas on storage issues, corruption problems under certain conditions?

 

[Pherdinand]

People,
stop calling it "terra". It's Tera. 🙂