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Now you can lose even more pictures and video when your SD goes bad. Woohoo! There are a lot of photographers who won't use SDs larger than 8GB for just that

Now you can lose even more pictures and video when your SD goes bad. Woohoo! There are a lot of photographers who won't use SDs larger than 8GB for just that reason--lose one, you don't lose everything.

mpeg 12y ago
Or you could just back things up regularly.
- JoeAltmaier 12y ago
  Its not about backup. Its about environmental stress. Photos are taken all over the place - yards, beaches, malls, in good weather and bad. SD cards are fragile. Its about, If you spend a day shooting and one of them doesn't make it back to the studio, how much have you lost?
  - georgemcbay 12y ago
    "SD cards are fragile" Are they, though? Because I use SD cards for photography and have for quite a few years and I take them not only to yards and beaches, but mountain peaks, spelunking in mud caves out in the desert, etc, and I have never had an SD card break on me either physically or in terms of data loss. To be fair, though, for photos only (no video) even with high-res uncompressed RAW photos I can't imagine anyone practically needing SD cards anywhere near the 512 GB size. That's a lot of photos... YMMV, I guess, maybe I'm totally lucky, but I have yet to personally have an incident which makes me worry about the robustness of decent quality SD cards.
- pessimizer 12y ago
  With your magic instant remote backup machine?
  - TillE 12y ago
    Special SD cards with built-in wifi have been around for a while. That's pretty magical.
  - jonknee 12y ago
    Sure... http://www.amazon.com/EZOPower-Portable-Wireless-External-Smartphone/dp/B00EP13JBC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410536260&sr=8-1&keywords=sd+backup http://www.amazon.com/EZOPower-Portable-Wireless-External-Sm... I mean it does cost $35, but it's pretty much exactly a magic remote backup machine (that can also charge your gear!). Or you can spend more cash and get one with an integrated hard drive and need no other devices.
mfringel 12y ago
As a former wedding photographer, I typically went by the number of pictures I was willing to trust to a single card. Since file sizes went up at roughly the same time as storage sizes, I ratcheted up the maximum size SD card I'd use. It used to be "won't use larger than 2GB". Right now it's around 8, but will likely become 16 in a couple of years.
- jacquesm 12y ago
  Sounds like someone should do a 'RAISD' for cameras.
  - ydant 12y ago
    Higher end DSLRs (including mid-line ones like the Nikon D7000) support two SD card slots and "backup" mode where both cards are written to with every picture. That's probably enough for most paranoia.
    - jacquesm 12y ago
      One day I will have an original idea. Today is not that day.
      - theandrewbailey 12y ago
        Don't worry. I'm bankrupt on those, too.
    - wcfields 12y ago
      Canon 5D Mk III has both SDXC and CF slots that you can duplicate as you shoot.
AtlasLion 12y ago
That's why most pro cameras have dual slots.
bitL 12y ago
I am using at least two fast 64GB SD Cards in copy/mirror mode on my Nikon, and back up immediately to Blu-Ray after a photoshoot/hyperlapse/video. I would be absolutely happy to use 2x512GB!
coldtea 12y ago
Well, professional cameras often have double slots and can copy to both cards at once. As for video, it's also common to stream to an external recorder from the DSLR etc.
brandonl222 12y ago
This isn't targeted at the DSLR crowd. It's meant for videographers shooting 1080p raw or 4k video. This card will only hold around 5 hours of raw 1080p video for me.

mpeg 12y ago

Or you could just back things up regularly.

JoeAltmaier 12y ago
Its not about backup. Its about environmental stress. Photos are taken all over the place - yards, beaches, malls, in good weather and bad. SD cards are fragile. Its about, If you spend a day shooting and one of them doesn't make it back to the studio, how much have you lost?
- georgemcbay 12y ago
  "SD cards are fragile" Are they, though? Because I use SD cards for photography and have for quite a few years and I take them not only to yards and beaches, but mountain peaks, spelunking in mud caves out in the desert, etc, and I have never had an SD card break on me either physically or in terms of data loss. To be fair, though, for photos only (no video) even with high-res uncompressed RAW photos I can't imagine anyone practically needing SD cards anywhere near the 512 GB size. That's a lot of photos... YMMV, I guess, maybe I'm totally lucky, but I have yet to personally have an incident which makes me worry about the robustness of decent quality SD cards.
pessimizer 12y ago
With your magic instant remote backup machine?
- TillE 12y ago
  Special SD cards with built-in wifi have been around for a while. That's pretty magical.
- jonknee 12y ago
  Sure... http://www.amazon.com/EZOPower-Portable-Wireless-External-Smartphone/dp/B00EP13JBC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410536260&sr=8-1&keywords=sd+backup http://www.amazon.com/EZOPower-Portable-Wireless-External-Sm... I mean it does cost $35, but it's pretty much exactly a magic remote backup machine (that can also charge your gear!). Or you can spend more cash and get one with an integrated hard drive and need no other devices.

mfringel 12y ago

As a former wedding photographer, I typically went by the number of pictures I was willing to trust to a single card. Since file sizes went up at roughly the same time as storage sizes, I ratcheted up the maximum size SD card I'd use. It used to be "won't use larger than 2GB". Right now it's around 8, but will likely become 16 in a couple of years.

jacquesm 12y ago
Sounds like someone should do a 'RAISD' for cameras.
- ydant 12y ago
  Higher end DSLRs (including mid-line ones like the Nikon D7000) support two SD card slots and "backup" mode where both cards are written to with every picture. That's probably enough for most paranoia.
  - jacquesm 12y ago
    One day I will have an original idea. Today is not that day.
    - theandrewbailey 12y ago
      Don't worry. I'm bankrupt on those, too.
  - wcfields 12y ago
    Canon 5D Mk III has both SDXC and CF slots that you can duplicate as you shoot.

AtlasLion 12y ago

That's why most pro cameras have dual slots.

bitL 12y ago

I am using at least two fast 64GB SD Cards in copy/mirror mode on my Nikon, and back up immediately to Blu-Ray after a photoshoot/hyperlapse/video. I would be absolutely happy to use 2x512GB!

coldtea 12y ago

Well, professional cameras often have double slots and can copy to both cards at once. As for video, it's also common to stream to an external recorder from the DSLR etc.

brandonl222 12y ago

This isn't targeted at the DSLR crowd. It's meant for videographers shooting 1080p raw or 4k video. This card will only hold around 5 hours of raw 1080p video for me.