All of the 3,739 5D raw files I took on my round-the-country trip
lasting from September 5 through October 20 fit on 46.1 GB or an average
of 1 GB/day. At that shooting rate it would take more than 3 months to
fill that card.
Chuck Norcutt
John Hudson wrote:
> Must check but I don't think so. I use 2GB and sometimes a 4MB card and
> even then I don't fill them to capacity. The risk of malfunction and loss of
> the images might be small but any such loss would be a major disapointment.
> Cards are cheap so why not carry as many as needed before the images can be
> downloaded to other storage media. 100 GB cards are the equivalent of a roll
> of film with 100's if not 1000's of exposures. Who in their right mind would
> commit so many exposures to one roll of film?
>
> jh
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 7:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Something to obsolete all of our DSLRs
>
>
>> The Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III can write simultaneously to a CF and an SD
>> card. Doesn't the E3 have 2 card slots? Can it write to both
>> simultaneously?
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>> John Hudson wrote:
>>> Imagine doing a wedding or high society or even a low society shoot with
>>> a
>>> 100 GB CF card and then having a card malfunction ?
>>>
>>> Me thinks that low capacity cards is the way to go.
>>>
>>> Something on the theme of all of one's chickens in the same basket idea.
>>>
>>> jh
>>> ]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 6:56 PM
>>> Subject: [OM] Something to obsolete all of our DSLRs
>>>
>>>
>>>> Pretec releases CFast card with SATA interface: DP Review
>>>> <http://www.dpreview.com/news/0901/09010902preteccfaststoragecards.asp>
>>>>
>>>> While reading this item I noticed that Pretec has also previously
>>>> announced 48, 64 and 100 GB capacity CF cards. The latter two were
>>>> announced Sept 23 for demo at Photokina. What do you do with a 100GB
>>>> card?
>>>>
>>>> It's beginning to look like that rotating storage stuff might not be
>>>> around on down the road. Me thinks maybe DVD and BlueRay might be in
>>>> trouble too in 5 or 10 years.
>>>>
>>>> Chuck Norcutt
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