What size for raw please?
Posted 02/04/2014 - 17:37
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I'll stick with Jpeg for now, have just been round Ringwood photographing the church (which has probably been done a million times before) althrough there are some quaint buildings, one still has it's bell pull which I'll try and get a shot of.
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Posted 02/04/2014 - 17:46 - Helpful Comment
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JAK wrote:
That's easy, John. I always carry at least one spare card with me and the only time I know I'll need the larger card is when I've paid to go for a 'Photographic Day Out'. At other times I prefer to play safe with the smaller cards. I also follow the same advice of another poster on this thread, i.e. always download the images as soon as possible after taking them. My present 8GB card is still not full and I have images dating back to last Autumn on it !PeterKR wrote:
I have come to this posting quite late but to answer the ORIGINAL question I prefer to use 8GB cards most of the time even though I always save BOTH RAW and JPEG files, and have found this size plenty big enough.
My thinking is that the smaller the card the fewer images you will lose if a) you lose the card, or b) the card should get corrupted.
I do also have some 16GB cards and these are useful if I want to do some 'burst mode' shooting (e.g. birds in flight etc).
How do you decide when you need the 16Gb card in for the burst mode? Surely by the time you've swapped the card over you've missed the shot? Why not just go with the 16 or even a 32 and leave the 8's for when you run out of space on the larger card?I have come to this posting quite late but to answer the ORIGINAL question I prefer to use 8GB cards most of the time even though I always save BOTH RAW and JPEG files, and have found this size plenty big enough.
My thinking is that the smaller the card the fewer images you will lose if a) you lose the card, or b) the card should get corrupted.
I do also have some 16GB cards and these are useful if I want to do some 'burst mode' shooting (e.g. birds in flight etc).
However, it's a personal choice so 'each to his own' ! I just like to play safe !
(Similarly, I always carry at least one spare battery and either that or the one in the camera is an AA holder so even if 2 batteries run out I can always get some AA's and stay active !)
Peter
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I have come to this posting quite late but to answer the ORIGINAL question I prefer to use 8GB cards most of the time even though I always save BOTH RAW and JPEG files, and have found this size plenty big enough.
My thinking is that the smaller the card the fewer images you will lose if a) you lose the card, or b) the card should get corrupted.
I do also have some 16GB cards and these are useful if I want to do some 'burst mode' shooting (e.g. birds in flight etc).