[Leica] road trip

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

In many cases, mine for example, that is an expensive proposition - the
camera defaults to the speed of the slower card, so for birds, wildlife,
etc, you end up buying double the number of expensive, high speed cards
(XQD, CFast and/or SD UHS II, depending on your system), which typically
retail at around US$75 for a single 32 GB card (which is what I generally
use, higher capacities are little more cost efficient). Simpler to have two
gizmos to download into at the end of each day, and reformat and reuse the
cards. Of course, you can shoot RAW/JPG Fine on a faster/slower card combo
without penalty, but then your backup is JPG. If you can live with that, it
is a perfectly valid solution. My view this is that it is stupid to buy an
expensive camera built for speed, then cripple it by economizing on the
cards!

If your style of shooting requires only being on the single shot mode, then
SD UHS I or CF cards would do, and consequently your method is the way to
go, with the caveat that you probably should put away both cards once they
are full in order to have two backups.

I am a bit careful in all this because I frequently travel to the boondocks
where nothing is available if anything should go wrong (I take two battery
chargers, two card readers, two camera bodies, etc - in other words,
backups for everything!).

Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Philippe <photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Depending on how many slots your camera holds, you could generate
> duplicate cards while shooting - I intend to do just that for my coming
> trip, and if need be, send myself one of the duplicates through the mail,
> or share the bounty with Alice to decrease the risks of theft or damage.
>
> Amities
> Philippe
>
>
>
> > Le 28 janv. 2018 à 23:35, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> a
> écrit :
> >
> > I'm planning a month-long road trip this summer and I'm woefully behind
> the curve w.r.t. backup strategies.  What has worked for you?
> >
> > Doug Herr
> > Birdman of Sacramento
> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> > http://doug-herr.fineartamerica.com
> >
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