Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. Gene -------------- Original message from "Frank Filippone" <red735i at earthlink.net>: -------------- > Thanks for the comments..... > > I guess the sheer number of exposures you expect ( 3200 x 4 = 12K > exposures) > does sort of indicate a bigger card is better...... > > I do offer my most sincere good luck when you get home and start to edit > the > work...... Boy, is that going to be a long project! > > Frank Filippone > red735i at earthlink.net > > So my theory is to have, say, 4 very large cards. (at least 16gb, but > 64gb if the M9 works with them.) Then, on a long trip (say 2 weeks in > Europe), you shoot quite freely, but NEVER reuse/reformat a card. > After off loading, don't reformat the cards until your various backup > processes are confirmed to have worked. > > So one wants to carry enough cards to cover all of the shooting for any > trip without needing to delete anything from a card. (Copy to disk if > possible just to have a backup) Digital cameras -> lots of exposures > (because we can.) Rather than carrying 16 by 16gb cards, would rather > carry 4 64gb cards. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information