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I have always considered memory cards some of the most valuable items I own. Everything else I purchase is nothing if anything happens to the images I captured.
Back when CF cards were the main media for digital, I felt more confident. I could write my information on the back of each card so that if was dropped or lost, whoever found it could, if they chose, get it back to me quickly. There were even lines on the backs of some CF cards for writing whatever you wanted on it. I put my name, phone number and email on the backs of them.
Plus, I carried them in hard, clamshell cases that were labeled yet again on the outside. I counted my cards before and after an event and guarded them (correctly so) like everything depended on the safety of those cards.
We used to tell stories about CF cards making it through washer and dryer cycles and the cards still being viable. I had a lot of confidence in them. I still like them the best because they are just the right size and built substantially enough in relation to their extreme importance.
Then along came SD cards as professional camera media. These things make me so nervous. They are infinitely flimsier and there's only a teeny-tiny space on SOME cards (like Sanddisk) to write anything. I can barely get my phone number on them if I carefully write very tight and small.
The only thing I can think of to do is to put a photo on the card of my information in case it is found and someone opens the card - something that could get the card back to me if it is dropped or lost. There's no way SD cards would make it through what a CF card would. Plus they have a great chance of a small person or animal putting them in their mouth and choking or swallowing it.
I'd like to see SD card manufacturers put blanks on the backs of the cards for writing personal information.
I still use a hard clamshell case for them - but it's hard to find cases that aren't black - these cases need to be color-coded glow-in-the dark NEON as far as I'm concerned. Black cases are hard to spot in a black bag or in the dark.
So far, this is the best I can find in a hard, clamshell case. Thinking of adding neon tape to it.
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