16 GB Cards!

[bartonflyer]

Sandisk now have a 12 and a 16 gb card! presumably we will be doing away with hard disks soon, just a few 16 gb cards & a blue ray DVD burner?

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0609/06092603_sandiskextremelll.asp

[tonymidd]

Sandisk now have a 12 and a 16 gb card! presumably we will be doing away with hard disks soon, just a few 16 gb cards & a blue ray DVD burner?

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0609/06092603_sandiskextremelll.asp

Great if you've got a H2D hassy or the new Mamiya!!!
I read somewhere that these large gb cards (2gb+) are prone to corruption more than the smaller ones.

[BarryM]

jeez imagine losing a full wedding and then some when ur 16 gig card crashes gulp.

[JBMUK]

until the larger cards overcome corruption, I have more trouble with the 2gb cards than my 1gb with the odd image being corrupt so I wouldnt personally have anything above 2gb, 16gb is a lot of images to lose

[lostmysnorkel]

Yup, I only ever used 1gb cards in the d70S, and bought a few 2gb and a 4gb for the D200.

Again. my worry is if the card goes belly up - then I haven't lost a whole shoot.

XXsharkXX

[david_phil]

If you do lose any photos for what ever reason try this piece of software. If you use it straight away you can recover up to 98% of the pics if there are a lot of them. http://www.photosrecovery.com/ It saved my a** last year when my main hard drive crashed b just before I was going to save them on DVD! Known in the family as Richards law! There are a number of varients, you know what I mean!

[Bindii]

I would be too scared to load all of my eggs in one basket...it would be so my luck that I'd actually lose the card with all the shots from a wedding on it...

[lionhart]

I use PC Inspector, and I used it on Saturday after a shoot, it only stored half of the pic's using the canon software, so I used the software to download the rest, only lost 2 pic's out of 89, told me where the error was on the card too.
Going out to buy a new 1GB card.

[Chris Hawkins]

Anyone any idea about how these compare with the Sandisk product - got a data recovery CD with my Extreme III card.

[StagePhotography.co.uk]

Some cameras have also DX cards...

And when you take a photo it saves
them on BOTH the CF and the DX...

You could also invest in a wireless
setup and have the laptop do backups
there and then of the images...

[Mal]

I had two 6gb micro drive cards go belly up one after the other, luckily the shots weren't that important and the cards were still under warranty.