Shoot tomorrow - need advice

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So tomorrow I'm off for a shoot, leaving at 8am for this sports thing and supposedly finishing at 4pm (yes I am getting paid!)
I usually shoot RAW, I only have 1 4GB card and a 2GB card but the shooter that was there last friday took 900 photos (though she was doing continuous shooting) and I'm kinda worried? There will be facilities for me to upload, so do I:
a) just fill up the card in RAW, empty it and then go out again
b) Do quality over quantity in RAW and upload when I get home
or
c) shoot JPEG? (as a very last resort I must say!)
 
Buy some more cards? Try Tesco given the time span.
 
i'd opt for D) get another card.

if you don't want to use jpg, then your only option will be to take the images off your cards periodically. this takes time and could mean you miss lots of shots.

nip into tesco on the way to your shoot a grab a couple of extra cards... it will make your life easier.

seriously, next time plan ahead... branded 8gb SD cards can be had for a few quid from 7 day shop.

it's always a good idea to have a few spares in your bag even if you don't need them most of the time... you never know when they might die on you.
 
depends what your employer wants from you and what they will use them for.
What ever the situation I think 900 would be very excessive.
Always go for quality over quantity imho
 
fezzr said:
depends what your employer wants from you and what they will use them for.
What ever the situation I think 900 would be very excessive.
Always go for quality over quantity imho
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Whilst that is a true enough statement, we don't know exactly what the event is. It could be a run with over 1000 entrants, thus needing upto 1000 photos.
 
With sports you don't shoot raw unless your playing at it. I had a play with a few football games under flood lights just to see what I could achieve and I shot raw I found I didn't need to have done due to how the conditions are. The conditions are pretty much constant so you can set your aperture and shutter speed for the conditions at the start and just shoot away with the occasional chimp to make sure they haven't turned some lights off or on even a sunny day in the park it is very similar you get the odd cloud that affects the exposure but you can compensate easily slowing or speeding up the shutter till the cloud has past.

With this in mind you can shoot jpeg perfectly happily, if they are for printing at smallish sizes 8x6 say then you can even go as far as shooting medium jpeg not even large. So your 4 and 2gb cards will be plenty of storage for what your doing. If your doing an event where your swapping cards for downloading all the time then you will need more cards, I did a kids football tournament with a few people off here and I was the only one using SD cards and I had 5 cards in play at one time 1 in the camera the other 4 in different states of being transfered to the PC or waiting to go back in the camera.

So a few more cards would be an advantage, its always nice to be able to just pop another card in and carry on shooting, I carry 2x 8gb (one is an eye-fi card) 2 sandisk 4gb extreme cards, 2 almost generic 4gb class 6 cards I then have a Kingston 4gb class 4 card and then a bunch of micro SD cards in adaptors as last resort cards. I have never so far used more than 1 of the generic 4gb class 6 cards.
 
Nowadays I shoot JPEG Large and find that for most of my pics this is perfectly adequate.

The upside is that a 16Gb card will give me about 2500 shots at 1600 ISO and more at lower ISOs.

The other advantage is that you can shoot continuous and get approx 12-20 shots before the buffer fills up. (using a class 6 card)

Obviously it doesn't increase the fps but on occasions I have found it very useful.

The only thing you need to do is avoid burning out the highlights so I use the histogram for almost every shot.

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