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I feel the need for some serious capacity, or maybe several smaller cards, undecided. I've no idea where to get the best prices though.
Definitely amazon! And I'd suggest lots of little cards, if you have all your images on a 16gb card or similar and the card fails, it's all gone! Avoid putting your eggs in 1 basket and all that!
Chris
7dayshop are doing Sandisk Extreme III 4gb cards for £20 a pop
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Definitely amazon! And I'd suggest lots of little cards, if you have all your images on a 16gb card or similar and the card fails, it's all gone! Avoid putting your eggs in 1 basket and all that!
Chris
the chances are one in three that you'll lose at least one card
So shooting multiple small cards means replacing the, vanishingly small, chance that you'll lose all your images with the, proportionately, much larger chance that you'll lose some images.
7dayshop are doing Sandisk Extreme III 4gb cards for £20 a pop
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So is Amazon, with free delivery
I think you should buy 1gb cards or even 512 mb cards in case one fails to minimise the amount of images you lose. At least you will have all the other cards [/sarcasm].
COSTCO are cheaper, or were when I have been in. They were about £17.00 including vat.
Chris
I have heard of this thing called "film". It comes in rolls of 36 shots
Yep, just ordered some myself as this is getting on for half price.
I'd recommend buying one big card. If you put your eggs in lots of baskets then it's much more likely that one of those baskets will get dropped.
CF cards are extremely reliable. I've been using them since 16MB was considered large and I've only ever had two fail (and one was my fault for puling it out of a PDA while it was being writ to). With the other one that failed I managed to recover most of the data.
It's much more likely that a card will suffer either mechanical damage while getting plugged into a socket (which you'll do more often with small cards) or get lost.
I've lost as may cards as I've had fail. When you're in a hurry and the 'card full' message comes up then it's easy to put the full card down and forget about it - or for it to drop, un-noticed, from the pocket you've put it in. With my single 16GB card the only way I can lose the card is to lose the camera.
Also, unless you're anally strict about organising them, there's always the possibility of accidentally over-writing one of the full cards.
Then there's the fact that having multiple cards increases the risk of one of them failing. Suppose the failure rate of cards is 5%. If you shoot 16GB onto a single card then you've a 95% chance of keeping all your shots. But, if you shoot 8x2GB cards then the chances are one in three that you'll lose at least one card. If you shoot 16x1GB then it's odds-on that one will fail.
So shooting multiple small cards means replacing the, vanishingly small, chance that you'll lose all your images with the, proportionately, much larger chance that you'll lose some images.