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 p.196 #1 · Mustang Air to Air: The Sequel | |
I know I'm not that heavy a shooter for shots in a week  And yup, I remember film all too well, drove me nuts.
I've still got 1GB, 2GB, 8 ,16, and 32GB CF cards and a few 2gb and 64gb SD cards here.  So far I haven't needed much more. Of course, I'm using ancient gear (D3, D700, D300s are my newest cameras) and just having fun with it, not depending on it for bread and butter, in which case I'd be starving.
Do the Canons also have two slots for redundancy?
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Hi Laura,
Actually, the reason I migrated to Lexar products had to do with the number of SanDisk failures I was experiencing. I don't have any scientific data to support this theory but it just makes sense, the more any given card goes in and out of a camera, the higher the failure rate. I keep all of my cards in water tight high end cases and am very careful with them, but I use them in a major way.
Analyzing it, I have about ten card cases, six cards in a case. My 32 and 64GB CF's get fairly light use and most of them are getting long in the tooth. I have a couple of 64GB cards but they rarely get used. The 128GB cards get regular use and I have six or eight of them, plus four 128GB CFast cards which only get used when the 1DX II's come out to play, mostly in Chandler's hands and maybe a half dozen times a year. The 128CF's are in and out of the 5DSR's on a pretty regular basis. Several of my cards have failed after they were written, pulled out, read from a car reader and place back in the camera. I'll get a "card cannot be read" message and it's all over but the cryin' at that point.
Obviously I'm migrating to SanDisk media so we'll see how that goes long term. The failures are annoying, and more than a little scary when you consider the possibilities, but if you put it in perspective, they have lifetime replacement warranties, and compared to shooting 36 exposure rolls they are a little slice of heaven. I shot 2,500 images this week which translates to 69 rolls of film, $1041.00, and about that for processing. Heck, if you put a pencil to it, you could buy a 128GB CF card ($149), fill it with 1743 RAW images on the SR (49 rolls of 36 x $30 = $1452.00), upload them and toss the card out, you would still be $1303.00 to the good, kind of amazing when you think about it. ...Show more →
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JWilsonphoto wrote:
I shouldn't admit this but I will, SanDisk corruptions got me looking for alternatives, but Lexar had cool black and gold graphics that kind of caught my eye..............um, what was that old "can't judge a book by it's cover....." saying. I guess age old sayings apply to cutting edge technology
Bottom line, based on the math in my previous post, if each of my cards were filled once and read before they failed, they really don't owe me anything. From there on out, it's all gravy.
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