How big is YOUR card ?

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annika1980@aol.com (Annika1980) wrote in news:20041206223451.21925.00001727
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>>From: Eric Gill ericvgill@yahoo.com
>
>>Lyra is essentially the same thing, only with a 3.8" viewscreen, TV out,
>>music, video and pic playback, and a (substantially) higher pricetag.
>>
>>For brute-force gobs of portable storage, the X-Drive is a good choice,
>>especially since you can buy your own drive mechanism. Upgradeability is
>>not a feature of any of the players.
>
> Also check out Epson's new digital wallet.
> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/accessories/P-2000.shtml

Looks like a very decent option, but it wasn't available when I bought the
Lyra. Unfortunately. Lyra doesn't support displaying RAW files, and the
battery isn't removeable, plus other spiffy options.

Ah, the price of impatience.

 

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>
> I see plug-in cards sized anywhere
> from 64meg to 512meg.
>
> Any reason to have half-dozen small cards ?
> ( or any spares at all ? )
>
> I found a 512meg SD card on sale....
> When I plugged it in, my camera announced I now had
> capacity for 800+ pictures.
>
> Unless you're taking pics for the high school graduating class,
> would there be reason for any more ( spare ) cards ?
>
> ......so much to learn...... ;o)
>
> <rj>

a small card is handy to transfer image files to a photo finisher, or just
to keep you from shooting 800 shots. for me, one 512 card holds some 32
shots with my 14mp kodak. but I still use them so I can copy the entire
card to one folder and then burn one back up cd by dragging it over to the
drive. eventually I will get a dvd burner and get some 4gb cards

 

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Mark² wrote:

> "tomcas" <tomcas@mjwebsitedesign.com> wrote in message
> news:Sf6td.221$E66.134@fe12.lga...
>
>>Marcel wrote:
>>
>>>You don't want to change cards or worry about the numbers. You take your
>>>shots, whatever the number. You cull afterwards, yet you want to review
>
> the
>
>>>best shots later and the more shots you have, the better your chances of
>>>getting great souvenirs.
>>>Marcel
>>
>>You have a good point but it can be risky putting all your souvenirs in
>>one basket.
>
>
> Sometimes it works the other way though...
>
> Which is safer to carry?...
>
> ...A dozen eggs you must juggle in the air...or a basket that holds them
> all?
>
> Sometimes the basket is precisely what you should use.
>
> When shooting wildlife, or at the beach, or in the rain, or on the
> sidelines, or in the crowds, etc. etc.... Pulling tiny little drives out of
> sensitive equipment is the LAST things one should have to do with
> regularity. More often than not, I find security in NOT having to expose
> lots of little cards to the endless shuffling through the mayh dangerous
> environments (to cards, at least) we find ourselves shooting in.
>
> Keeping my card safe INSIDE my camera often outweighs the "benefit" of lots
> of little cards I may lose or destroy in teh endless fiddling...not to
> mention the SHOTS I will inevitably MISS because I've once again run out of
> space at the critical moment.
>
> The BEST solution...is as follows (even if not the most economical):
>
> Many LARGE cards.
> This way, you can shoot non-stop in those fast paced moments where you HAVE
> to get the shot...but can opt for removing/replacing the card even BEFORE it
> is full if you're worried about data loss.
>
> Personally...when you can buy 1GB sanDisk cards for $69 at costco, I think
> even the multiple-big solution is even economically sound.
> -Mark
>
>


Heck, I don't even have to do this (yet), and I agree 110% because,
knowing me the way I do, it all makes sense for all the right reaons.

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Darrell Larose writes:

>
>My 1 GB CF crad holds 70 Pentax RAW files (* ist D)

Or 56 TIFF, or 909 at the lowest JPEG setting. Quite a range.

Charlie Self
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."
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"Charlie Self" <charliediy@aol.comnotforme> wrote in message
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> Darrell Larose writes:
>
> >
> >My 1 GB CF crad holds 70 Pentax RAW files (* ist D)
>
> Or 56 TIFF, or 909 at the lowest JPEG setting. Quite a range.
>
Actually at 1536x1024(s) "good" quality it will store 2832 images, in comic
book quality 😉 However I normally shoot RAW, or once and a while highest
quality JPEG.

 

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On 6 Dec 2004 15:15:10 -0800, "thedeepabyss@whoever.com"
<thedeepabyss@whoever.com> wrote:

>1. What if you loose that one card? While on safari in central Africa?
>Nothing for 500 miles?
>2. What if the card breaks? While on safari etc.etc. It happens.
>3. What if you forgot to take off the 799 shots of Brittany Spears
>f#%&ing the mailman you happened to be in a position to take, and
>Sasquatch walks by? Do you format the card?

Show him the Brittany pix and he might follow you home, where
you can take as many shots of him as you want. Or he'll run the other
way.

 

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thedeepabyss@whoever.com wrote:
....
> Seriously, I carry a 512MB (~150 pics with my camera on "super-high
> quality" JPEG), and a 256MB and a very old 96MB as spares. And I've
> used them all on numerous occasions.
>

Me too (haven't read that chestnut in a long while.)
But seriously, I also use a 512MB and carry spares of 256MB, 126MB,
and even the 32MB that came with my first digital camera.

> Also, you might want to increase the resolution of the pics you're
> taking, if possible. You only get one chance to take a picture; you
> should make it as good a shot as possible (within reason, of course -
> RAW may take too long). You won't get a chance to go back and shoot
> that exact same moment again.....
>

Agree with the "too long". With the cam I got, the max
resolution takes
so long to read to the card, I see three or four shots passing by, forever
missed. The next level down is noticably faster and I rarely notice
a substantial difference of the same scene taken both ways.
(Yes, with more money I could get a faster cam, but I deficit like
a government as it is ...)

But that last line grabs me - there are at least three pictures I
missed
for one reason or another (no camera; out of film; shutter not cocked
when I
thought it was) - and I remember the missed shots more strongly
than many that I did get. The images in my mind of missed shots also
seem more vivid and meaningful than even the beautiful ones I did
capture - those are frozen 'as is'. The mental images are only stored
in my head, but can't be altered by cropping, printing, mounting, etc.
The next advance in imaging technology ought to be transferring mental
images into digital. Can you imagine your dreams automatically
recorded on hard drive?

 

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Oh baby.

I've got four 1GB which get's me through the day with either my 300D or 1D.

 

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"Annika1980" <annika1980@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >From: Eric Gill ericvgill@yahoo.com
>
>>Lyra is essentially the same thing, only with a 3.8" viewscreen, TV out,
>>music, video and pic playback, and a (substantially) higher pricetag.
>>
>>For brute-force gobs of portable storage, the X-Drive is a good choice,
>>especially since you can buy your own drive mechanism. Upgradeability is
>>not a feature of any of the players.
>
> Also check out Epson's new digital wallet.
> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/accessories/P-2000.shtml

Why not simply tether the camera to a unit with a 80 GB Hard drive? Now
someone go take the credit for my idea and make a lot of money.

 

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"you know who maybe" <nguser2u@spamnotAOL.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Annika1980" <annika1980@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:20041206223451.21925.00001727@mb-m06.aol.com...
>> >From: Eric Gill ericvgill@yahoo.com
>>
>>>Lyra is essentially the same thing, only with a 3.8" viewscreen, TV out,
>>>music, video and pic playback, and a (substantially) higher pricetag.
>>>
>>>For brute-force gobs of portable storage, the X-Drive is a good choice,
>>>especially since you can buy your own drive mechanism. Upgradeability is
>>>not a feature of any of the players.
>>
>> Also check out Epson's new digital wallet.
>> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/accessories/P-2000.shtml
>
> Why not simply tether the camera to a unit with a 80 GB Hard drive? Now
> someone go take the credit for my idea and make a lot of money.
>
The limiting factor with your idea is either the bulk of the HD or the
length of tether...<G>

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On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:16:24 GMT, Ken Weitzel <kweitzel@shaw.ca>
wrote:


>The Peter Principle works nicely here - "things will
>expand to fill the space available for their storage"

Don't think that is the PP.
========
Peter Principle -- In an organization an individual will rise to his
level of incompetence.

-or-

Parkinson's Law -- Work will always expand to fill the time available
for its completion.
=======

Anyway I am taking four CF card to Hawaii next month. Always want
backup.


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TheNewsGuy(Mike) wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:16:24 GMT, Ken Weitzel <kweitzel@shaw.ca>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>>The Peter Principle works nicely here - "things will
>>expand to fill the space available for their storage"
>
>
> Don't think that is the PP.
> ========
> Peter Principle -- In an organization an individual will rise to his
> level of incompetence.


pssst.. that's the wrong peter.




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On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:16:17 GMT, tnguymNoSpamm@yaho.com
(TheNewsGuy(Mike)) wrote:


>
>Anyway I am taking four CF card to Hawaii next month. Always want
>backup.
>

I'd call it paranoia.

I'm only taking 2 x 1Gb CF cards and a lap top with a 160Gb external
drive to NZ.... And 2 camera bodies....
Pete S.

www.derwentelec.clara.co.uk

 

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On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:16:17 GMT, tnguymNoSpamm@yaho.com
(TheNewsGuy(Mike)) wrote:

>On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:16:24 GMT, Ken Weitzel <kweitzel@shaw.ca>
>wrote:
>
>
>>The Peter Principle works nicely here - "things will
>>expand to fill the space available for their storage"
>
>Don't think that is the PP.
>========
>Peter Principle -- In an organization an individual will rise to his
>level of incompetence.
>
>-or-
>
>Parkinson's Law -- Work will always expand to fill the time available
>for its completion.
>=======
>
>Anyway I am taking four CF card to Hawaii next month. Always want
>backup.

If you see Brett there, give him a slap. Not that he particularly
deserves it, but you'll feel better and so will I.

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On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:03:41 GMT, "you know who maybe"
<nguser2u@spamnotAOL.com> wrote:

>
>"Annika1980" <annika1980@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:20041206223451.21925.00001727@mb-m06.aol.com...
>> >From: Eric Gill ericvgill@yahoo.com
>>
>>>Lyra is essentially the same thing, only with a 3.8" viewscreen, TV out,
>>>music, video and pic playback, and a (substantially) higher pricetag.
>>>
>>>For brute-force gobs of portable storage, the X-Drive is a good choice,
>>>especially since you can buy your own drive mechanism. Upgradeability is
>>>not a feature of any of the players.
>>
>> Also check out Epson's new digital wallet.
>> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/accessories/P-2000.shtml
>
>Why not simply tether the camera to a unit with a 80 GB Hard drive? Now
>someone go take the credit for my idea and make a lot of money.
>
>
Oh, a laptop with a firewire.......


Pete S.

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William H. Hathaway wrote:

> thedeepabyss@whoever.com wrote:
> ...
>
>> Seriously, I carry a 512MB (~150 pics with my camera on "super-high
>> quality" JPEG), and a 256MB and a very old 96MB as spares. And I've
>> used them all on numerous occasions.
>>
>
> Me too (haven't read that chestnut in a long while.)
> But seriously, I also use a 512MB and carry spares of 256MB, 126MB,
> and even the 32MB that came with my first digital camera.
>
>> Also, you might want to increase the resolution of the pics you're
>> taking, if possible. You only get one chance to take a picture; you
>> should make it as good a shot as possible (within reason, of course -
>> RAW may take too long). You won't get a chance to go back and shoot
>> that exact same moment again.....
>
>
> Agree with the "too long". With the cam I got, the max resolution
> takes
> so long to read to the card, I see three or four shots passing by, forever
> missed. The next level down is noticably faster and I rarely notice
> a substantial difference of the same scene taken both ways.
> (Yes, with more money I could get a faster cam, but I deficit like
> a government as it is ...)
>
> But that last line grabs me - there are at least three pictures I missed
> for one reason or another (no camera; out of film; shutter not cocked
> when I
> thought it was) - and I remember the missed shots more strongly
> than many that I did get. The images in my mind of missed shots also
> seem more vivid and meaningful than even the beautiful ones I did
> capture - those are frozen 'as is'. The mental images are only stored
> in my head, but can't be altered by cropping, printing, mounting, etc.
> The next advance in imaging technology ought to be transferring mental
> images into digital. Can you imagine your dreams automatically
> recorded on hard drive?
>


Interesting you mention this, but someone has already explored the idea
of recording memories for others to view.... and a large bag of popcorn
is strongly recommended.

====================================
Plot Summary for the film "Brainstorm" (1983)

Brilliant researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace have developed
a system of recording and playing back actual experiences of people.
Once the capability of tapping into "higher brain functions" is added
in, and you can literally jump into someone else's head and play back
recordings of what he or she was thinking, feeling, seeing, etc., at the
time of the recording, the applications for the project quickly spiral
out of control. While Michael Brace uses the system to become close
again to Karen Brace, his estranged wife who also works on the project,
others start abusing it for intense sexual experiences and other logical
but morally questionable purposes. The government tries to kick Michael
and Lillian off the project once the vast military potential of the
technology is discovered. It soon becomes obvious that the government is
interested in more than just missile guidance systems. The lab starts
producing mind torture recordings and other psychosis inducing material.
When one of the researchers dies and tapes the experience of death,
Michael is convinced that he must playback this tape to honor the memory
of the researcher and to become enlightened. When another researcher
dies during playback the tape is locked away and Michael has to fight
against his former colleagues and the government lackeys that now run
his lab in order to play back and confront the "scariest thing any of us
will ever face" - death itself.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/plotsummary

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On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:46:08 -0700, "<RJ>" <baranick@localnet.com>
wrote:

>
>I see plug-in cards sized anywhere
>from 64meg to 512meg.
>
>Any reason to have half-dozen small cards ?
>( or any spares at all ? )
>
>I found a 512meg SD card on sale....
>When I plugged it in, my camera announced I now had
>capacity for 800+ pictures.
>
>Unless you're taking pics for the high school graduating class,
>would there be reason for any more ( spare ) cards ?
>
>......so much to learn...... ;o)
>
><rj>
_______

We had exactly 800 people in my senior high school class. So ...

Marshall

 

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you know who maybe wrote:
> "Annika1980" <annika1980@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:20041206223451.21925.00001727@mb-m06.aol.com...
>>> From: Eric Gill ericvgill@yahoo.com
>>
>>> Lyra is essentially the same thing, only with a 3.8" viewscreen, TV
>>> out, music, video and pic playback, and a (substantially) higher
>>> pricetag. For brute-force gobs of portable storage, the X-Drive is a
>>> good
>>> choice, especially since you can buy your own drive mechanism.
>>> Upgradeability is not a feature of any of the players.
>>
>> Also check out Epson's new digital wallet.
>> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/accessories/P-2000.shtml
>
> Why not simply tether the camera to a unit with a 80 GB Hard drive?
> Now someone go take the credit for my idea and make a lot of money.

Better yet - forego tethers and touchy memory devices completely! All
we have to do is figure out a way to coat something - some kind of flat
plastic perhaps? - with some sort of light sensitive material. You
could then conveniently download the day's shoot to your corner drug
store...

I will happily give up all rights to my idea, all I ask in return is
that this amazing new miracle product be called "Bob".

Bob ^,,^

 

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"you know who maybe" <nguser2u@spamnotAOL.com> wrote in news:xvktd.9917$_
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>
> "Annika1980" <annika1980@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:20041206223451.21925.00001727@mb-m06.aol.com...
>> >From: Eric Gill ericvgill@yahoo.com
>>
>>>Lyra is essentially the same thing, only with a 3.8" viewscreen, TV out,
>>>music, video and pic playback, and a (substantially) higher pricetag.
>>>
>>>For brute-force gobs of portable storage, the X-Drive is a good choice,
>>>especially since you can buy your own drive mechanism. Upgradeability is
>>>not a feature of any of the players.
>>
>> Also check out Epson's new digital wallet.
>> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/accessories/P-2000.shtml
>
> Why not simply tether the camera to a unit with a 80 GB Hard drive?

Because of the tether.

No one wants it. It's annoying enough in the studio, in the field it's a
royal pain.

The Wi-Fi attachment is another issue altogether.

> Now
> someone go take the credit for my idea and make a lot of money.

Don't look now, but such things have been around for some time.

 

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"Pete S." wrote:

> I'm only taking 2 x 1Gb CF cards and a lap top with a 160Gb external
> drive to NZ.... And 2 camera bodies....
> Pete S.
>
> www.derwentelec.clara.co.uk

Fear not, Pete. You can always buy more cards out here in NZ, which you
will probably need if you get to see some of the scenery here {🙂

Colin (NZ)

 

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On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 14:48:40 +1300, Colin D
<ColinD@killspam.127.0.0.1> wrote:

>
>
>"Pete S." wrote:
>
>> I'm only taking 2 x 1Gb CF cards and a lap top with a 160Gb external
>> drive to NZ.... And 2 camera bodies....
>> Pete S.
>>
>> www.derwentelec.clara.co.uk
>
>Fear not, Pete. You can always buy more cards out here in NZ, which you
>will probably need if you get to see some of the scenery here {🙂
>
>Colin (NZ)
>
So they have stuff like that out there? ah heck.......

Last trip I was on a roll a day. This trip I won't have film
limitations (how much can I carry) and I'll know what I took straight
away.

Flying friday.


Pete S.

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On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 15:50:44 +0000, "William H. Hathaway"
<hathaway@stsci.edu> wrote:

>The next advance in imaging technology ought to be transferring mental
>images into digital. Can you imagine your dreams automatically
>recorded on hard drive?

Yes, I'd get arrested.

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On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:17:18 GMT, Phil Wheeler <w6tuh-ng5@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>
>
>Annika1980 wrote:
>
>>>From: Phil Wheeler w6tuh-ng5@yahoo.com
>>
>>
>>>Overseas travel. I have six 1 GB CF cards and get about 240 shots on
>>>each (20D, Large-Fine).
>>
>>
>> I had three 1 GB cards with me in Hawaii. I'd download those each night to the
>> laptop. Shooting in RAW mode, I still found myself running out of room on some
>> days. Guess I shoulda taken the laptop with me.
>>
>
>I travel with a 30 GB X-Drive II for that purpose.
>
>Phil

While that works well for you, I find that a laptop makes a better
companion for myself.
There's a lot to be said for being able to see the pics you shot in
Yellowstone later that night in the cabin.

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On 6 Dec 2004 15:15:10 -0800, "thedeepabyss@whoever.com"
<thedeepabyss@whoever.com> wrote:

>1. What if you loose that one card? While on safari in central Africa?
>Nothing for 500 miles?
>2. What if the card breaks? While on safari etc.etc. It happens.

Well, so much for that safari I was going to take. 🙂
>3. What if you forgot to take off the 799 shots of Brittany Spears
>f#%&ing the mailman you happened to be in a position to take, and
>Sasquatch walks by? Do you format the card?

You kick yourself for not having a video camera.
>
>Seriously, I carry a 512MB (~150 pics with my camera on "super-high
>quality" JPEG), and a 256MB and a very old 96MB as spares. And I've
>used them all on numerous occasions.
>
I have 1gigx1 and 512MBx2 cards for my DR; with the laptop, that's
been enough so far.
>Also, you might want to increase the resolution of the pics you're
>taking, if possible. You only get one chance to take a picture; you
>should make it as good a shot as possible (within reason, of course -
>RAW may take too long). You won't get a chance to go back and shoot
>that exact same moment again.....
>
>ECM

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Big Bill wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:17:18 GMT, Phil Wheeler <w6tuh-ng5@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>Annika1980 wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>From: Phil Wheeler w6tuh-ng5@yahoo.com
>>>
>>>
>>>>Overseas travel. I have six 1 GB CF cards and get about 240 shots on
>>>>each (20D, Large-Fine).
>>>
>>>
>>>I had three 1 GB cards with me in Hawaii. I'd download those each night to the
>>>laptop. Shooting in RAW mode, I still found myself running out of room on some
>>>days. Guess I shoulda taken the laptop with me.
>>>
>>
>>I travel with a 30 GB X-Drive II for that purpose.
>>
>>Phil
>
>
> While that works well for you, I find that a laptop makes a better
> companion for myself.
> There's a lot to be said for being able to see the pics you shot in
> Yellowstone later that night in the cabin.
>
Quite true, and one reason I HAVE a laptop, but it sure weighs a lot
more than a small box of CF cards....