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CF card v/s Memory bank

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Posted by Prashant Khapane on July 18, 2006 at 4:11 PM
What do you prefer during 3-4 day trips? Do you carry multiple cards or few cards and memory bank (something like pd70x).

If memory bank then which is better?
Posted by Guy Tal on July 18, 2006 at 4:51 PM
On most trips multiple cards are much less hassle and weight, and are more reliable. On longer trips where you need 10GB or more of storage you may want a portable drive or a laptop.

Guy
Posted by Prashant Khapane on July 18, 2006 at 5:02 PM
Thanks Guy. This is what I have been thinking of too. I already have a gb and 2gb card. I may add another 1gb or 2 for our mountain trip. I normally take time to click so 1gb/day should be sufficient.
Posted by Steve Foss on July 18, 2006 at 8:50 PM
Most of my shooting is within an hour's drive of my home, which is why I moved here. The wilderness is 10 minutes away. Most days I don't fill my cards, and I drive back home and do my work on the desktop. When I travel significantly to shoot, It's 8 Gb worth of cards and a laptop. It all fits in my excursion backpack, and there are extra laptop batteries, just in case I'm way out in the middle of nowhere and I've filled all my cards. That can easily be 30 lbs of gear in the pack, but that's the life. It's interesting, sitting on a rock in the middle of the wilderness and downloading CF cards into my laptop. Quite a disconnect . . . high tech amidst the primitive.
Posted by Rob Coomer on July 19, 2006 at 9:56 AM
I almost always have my epson P2000 with me. I seem to blow through 5GB of cards pretty quickly. I have a tendency to shot many angles on a subject and then back it up with multiple images that can be stitched. I also shoot RAW + medum JPG which eats up a lot of space too.

I don't erase my cards until I need them, and I know they have been downloaded, otherwise it serves as a secondary backup, and it transfers files to my computer faster than a card reader.