[Leica] Anybody with an actual M9 have experiencewith largefast cards?

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

When I travel for my wildlife shoots, I take close to 100GB total capacity
of cards, and back up twice a day (after both the morning & afternoon
safaris) to a Hyperdrive and my laptop. The replaceable hard drive within my
hyperdrive casing automatically becomes my primary RAW backup for the trip.
The cards range in size from 4GB to 16GB. Only the high capacity ones get
used, the low capacity ones are essentially backup. Remember also, that I
shoot with two Nikon D300 bodies - it distributes the shots, but really does
not change total shots taken by very much. I know that in Kenya I require
approximately 13GB a day, and in India around 8GB a day on average for a
days shoot - because of the open grassland in Africa, you shoot a lot more.
My primary card in these circumstances is the 16GB SanDisk Extreme IV cards
- I think you should use the capacity that roughly equals one day's
shooting, even if you use two bodies, because one might pack up. So on
certain trips I do not erase the card, but keep it as an additional backup.
I am now all set to buy a netbook with Windows7 to replace my laptop on
these trips (much lighter).

For Canon/Nikon shooters, this database is useful to find out the best
performing cards for each body:

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007

Cheers
Jayanand


On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:38 AM, <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:

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> And what happens if you loose one of those 64G cards, or maybe 2 of them?
>  I shot close to what you expect to take, using 2G and one 4G cards last
> year on my trip to Europe.  I down loaded to my computer every night, plus 
> a
> backup drive.  I found this worked very well, took only a few minutes, and 
> I
> did not have to worry about loosing a ton of images.  I would expect the M9
> to use the same size SDHC cards as the M8 does.
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> Gene
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