Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]sata disks are on another pricing free-fall. if you look around, you ought to get Terabyte drives for $90-$100. just 2 years ago, 20 cents / Gig was a good price, now it's less than half that. i recently got a pair of 1.5 TB drives from Dell for $199 the pair, on one of the very many sales they run. lately, with disks so cheap i run them RAIDed (RAID1), either software raid on my linux desktops, or RAID NAS enclosures like the Dlink DNS321 (just over $110, Gigibit ethernet, and takes 2 sata drives up to 1.5TB). ...and just a hair over 20 years ago, we got a fujitsu eagle, 450 MB, size of a legal file cabinet drawer, and sounded like a jet engine at full thrust... -rei On Jun05 09:31, Thein Onn Ming wrote: > I don't think I've even got 6x16GB free on my computer. > > I need to buy more hard drives before more cards. :P > > On Jun 5, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > >> I use 16 gig cards,,,,I carry six of them on trips, and don't delete >> them till I return and back them up at home, >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: >>> Interesting finding when inserting an 8 Gig card. :-) For those who >>> have not >>> done so yet. :-) It's cool! :-) >>> >>> >>> >>> If only 50 years ago digital and 8 Gig cards were available I >>> wouldn't have >>> had to pack 500 to 1000 rolls of film on many of my assignments, >>> simply >>> because where I was shooting there weren't any local photo or >>> convenience >>> stores. So what you needed or thought you might need, you packed the >>> lot if >>> there was the tiniest of question "I wonder if?". So you took >>> everything in >>> the way of equipment and film. >>> >>> >>> >>> So to my pleasant surprise I bought an 8 Gig card inserted it into >>> the M8 >>> while set on RAW. Surprise.. looks like I can shoot 720 frames >>> without >>> changing card.. That's over 20 rolls of 36 exp. Tri-X. Now if one >>> were to >>> shoot in JPEG that jumps to 1000 frames! Damn all that film I had to >>> hump >>> around for so many years. >>> >>> >>> >>> Just thought you might find this an interesting point in favour of >>> digital >>> for those who did shoot thousands of rolls a year. And still do. >>> >>> >>> >>> However, what I did find upon inserting the card directly to >>> computer card >>> reader...... "IT WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD!" A scary moment as there were >>> some cool >>> images I really wanted. Ran the situation by my local computer- >>> photo Guru, >>> he was sure it wasn't the card as we could see the images on the >>> camera >>> screen. But that it might be the computer card reader wasn't fast >>> enough or >>> words to that effect, to down load the information. He suggested an >>> external >>> card reader of high capacity? We popped in a new HAMA card reader and >>> "blink!" There were all the images fly into LR2 on screen. You could >>> hear >>> the breathing again. >>> >>> >>> >>> Just thought it a moment to pass along in case you hadn't played >>> with an 8 >>> gig card. Heck even shooting a football game where quite often ten >>> or 20 36 >>> exp. rolls would be exposed during the afternoon. Now one card and >>> shoot two >>> games without changing! :-) And no bulging photo vest pockets with >>> film! Or >>> changing rolls as the key point of the game is missed! :-( >>> >>> ted >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > THEIN Onn Ming > *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com > www.flickr.com/mingthein > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Rei Shinozuka shino at panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey