Do you use the highest capacity CF card you can buy or do you like a particular size for convenience or safety?

[anthony_lauro]

<p>I have 34gb in cards....all sandisk, some extreme, mostly ultra. Highest is 8gb but I like having smaller cards.<br>

When I shoot weddings, after each event, aka pre ceremony is one card whether it's full or not. Ceremony, reception, same thing.</p>

[markonestudios]

I use Sandisk exclusively: some 2GB Extreme III's and 4GB Ultra II's. I shoot L (fine) and occasionally RAW on a 5D2.

[bojepsen1]

<p>I always use a couple of 4GB cards. I would like to have a couple of 8GB cards, but seeing that I'm actually doing OK with the 4GB ones, I can't square buying the larger cards (I know they're not that expensive, but I find myself remembering the old adage of 'if it ain't broken...')</p>

[jackaldridge]

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<p>...or the 2GB card is less risky than using a larger 8 or 16GB where you might lose more work should something go wrong?</p>

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<p>Lose one card with all your important photos and the answer to your question becomes pretty obvious...</p>

[surfidaho]

<p>I back up my files on a software RAID using MirrorFolder. I can set the options so that when I copy from card to disk, it automatically makes another copy on another drive that cannot be destroyed. When I modify the copy on the primary disk, I have it set to modify the backup, but you can control that as well.</p>

[dcstep]

<p>Jack said:<br>

"Lose one card with all your important photos and the answer to your question becomes pretty obvious..."</p>

<p>To someone that's never filled a 2GB card in one shoot, it may be obvious, but to the rest of us it's not so clear...</p>

[dcstep]

<p>Paul, where do you buy these drives "that cannot be destroyed?"</p>

<p>If I could find one of those, then I wouldn't need two, one at home and one at the office. ;-)</p>

[philip_wilson]

<p>I use a mix of 16GB and 8 GB UDMA. Mainly 8GB for safety. with a 5DII or 7D shooting Raw on 4GB or 2GB cards does not get you very far. On the other hand I do not want to risk 3GB or more</p>

[john_deerfield]

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<p>I back up my files on a software RAID using MirrorFolder.</p>

 

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<p>A Raid is NOT a back up. The ONLY thing a Raid protects you from is drive failure. Period. It does not protect you from file or directory corruption, from accidentally deleting a file, from a surge taking out your drives and so on. It only protects you from drive failure. At which point, you really need a <em>back up</em> drive to prevent the "other" catastrophes that can (and are more likely) to happen. Since you now have a back up drive, the need for the Raid is really... unneeded!</p>

[jackaldridge]

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<p>To someone that's never filled a 2GB card in one shoot, it may be obvious, but to the rest of us it's not so clear...</p>

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<p>David....could you elaborate on your comment? Not sure I get your point here...</p>

[dcstep]

<p>Jack, read your own post, then mine and I think you'll get the message.</p>

[jackaldridge]

<p>David... I did read my own post...hard not to do since you quoted it...<br>

Thanks anyway... not really a big deal...</p>

[mr._b]

<p>I bought 2gb cards through my ownership of a 10D and 30D. 212 RAW files on a card is fine for me. Now that I use a 40D I only get 141 pics on a card so I buy 4GB cards now. I am rightfully wary of having all my 'eggs in one basket' so I have no problem changing cards a few times a day. Cards can fail, get lost or stolen or succumb to some sort of human error. Were my camera to be stolen during a day of shooting I wouldn't want the added insult of losing all the day's pictures.</p>