Convenience in the field. I don't normally want to carry my storage
device in the field (another pound in the bag) and it's more
convenient to have plenty of storage cards so that I can just keep
shooting for quite a while. Storage cards are not "serious money"
anymore (at least in the US) ... it's about $55 for a 1G SD or CF
card at present.
When I go out for a session, I carry 6x 1G storage cards. I rarely
use more than two/three of them, but there are those occasions when
things are fast and furious and I fill almost all of them.
Godfrey
On Oct 13, 2005, at 9:55 PM, Boris Liberman wrote:
Hi!
Thanks to a certain list member ;-), I am now enabled with Compact
Drive PD7X. Wonderful little creature - can charge your batteries,
can read your cards, can copy them onto its internal hard drive.
All in all, now I have 12 GB more of space that I can take with me.
Here comes the question.
Say, I am a shooter shooting somewhere on some location. I have my
two trusty 1 GB SandDisk cards and my quite reliable PD7X. One card
is filled, I plug it to PD7X and load the other card to the camera.
Then I repeat this "trick" when the second card is filled and so on.
Here is the question. Why on earth I would want to buy a 8GB
compact flash (for serious money) if I can buy a couple of 1 GBs
and as much as 80GB hard drive for PD7X?
I am not talking about extreme conditions or shooting with MF
digital back. I am talking about regular amateur shooting with 6-8
MP camera on his vacation or some other favorite photo location of
his.
What do you say?
Boris
