On 3/14/2015 11:32 AM, Bill Pearce wrote:
There are different strategies. No one fits all.
9 months on ONE CARD? I find this appaling.
This can easily happen to one of my less used cameras. HOWEVER, they have also been downloaded to the image storage
drive on my desktop, sometimes via my netbook+, and backed up to another HDD kept away from the computer. On longer
trips, those downloaded to the portable daily are also copied to a portable HDD, again kept separate in luggage from
cameras and computer.
Why not leave them on the card until it is full? Just further redundancy in case of trouble. So I have some image files
from trips that reside in five places until the card us reused, so what? Cost is minimal and I am not aware of ever
losing a file completely, in spite of the occasional fumble of brain or fingers.
I make it a habit of never putting more photos on a card than I want to lose.
This is meaningless with the above strategy. I have no more photos on a card that haven't been backed than have just
been shot that day.
This is much harder than it used to be, as we are the victims of Moore's law, stupid consumers and dumb ass
inexperienced photographically clueless kids at Best Buy. I prefer no card over 8GB for still photography, 8 for the
leica (big files) and 2 and 4 gig tor the panasonic. 2 and 4 gig CF cards for the D3 and D700. I don't know how long
the ones I have will last, but I don't expect to be able to get any decent ones in the future, am stocking up on 8's
as they are on sale. Don't figure they will be around much longer. Will just use for a day and file, leaving them half
empty.
Newer cameras can take advantage of UHS-1 cards, which speeds up writing to the card, and thus use of the camera. You
are busily stockpiling cards that may slow you down.
I am ecstatic to have 64 GB cards. I can spend a month on vacation without having to change cards in my two active
cameras. One less hassle, one more back-up.
Why of why do folks think their camera or phone is a suitable storage place for photos? Whatever happened to the
shoebox of photos in the attic?
Because they have Cloud back-up on, and the images are automatically backed up
for them?
The clouds aren't perfect, but are more reliable than a shoebox that may be lost or damaged. In my case, they are double
copied, to iCloud and Dropbox. That's one of the advantages of the smart device model, backup without thinking about it.
I also occasionally copy them to my local image HDD, where they are also backed up to the separate drive in my usual
process.
The Andy Rooney act may be fun, but isn't always useful.
Thinking things through, and rethinking as tech changes, is usually useful.
Back Up Moose
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