32GB cards - good deal at Adorama

Adorama presently has good deal on 32GB cards, about $100 apiece if you buy 3.

For those using 20+ MP cameras, 5D with video etc, I have a question. How many images / video time do you get with a 32GB card.

Presently I find I can shoot a whole 5-7 day trip on one 32GB card with my D700 (about 1500 RAW images) and I really like the idea of keeping cards as my ultimate backup until I get home. So I'm thinking of buying 3 cards and traveling with these rather than hard drive backups. Sorry I guess I should have posted under gear lust, oh well,

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Presently I find I can shoot a whole 5-7 day trip on one 32GB card with my D700 (about 1500 RAW images)

Do you shoot uncompressed? With lossless compression, I'm pretty sure I get about 1,000 RAWs per 16gb on my D700.

The card SAYS I only have room for 620, but that seems to be some kind of weird bug ... I regularly seem to blow right past 620 and get far more.

Just a cautionary tidbit, but that $200 off is actually a rebate. SO you run the risk of Sandisk rejecting the rebate for whatever reason. They did that with my rebate twice because the rebate clearing house said my application wasn't complete. But after a few phone calls and 6 weeks later, they approved it.

As for capacity with 32GB on a 5D2, I run out of battery before I run out of memory on a 32GB card except one time I was shooting video of a band and 80+ mins later, the card filled out then the battery died. The guy shooting the 1DMkIV prototype had a 2nd card to go on and his bigger battery lasted longer than the gig. 100kISO on the 1D4 is mindboggling but I never did get to see the results on 24" monitor even. The stills looked great though but this was in Sep when the firmware was a bit backward.

Adorama presently has good deal on 32GB cards, about $100 apiece if you buy 3.

For those using 20+ MP cameras, 5D with video etc, I have a question. How many images / video time do you get with a 32GB card.

Presently I find I can shoot a whole 5-7 day trip on one 32GB card with my D700 (about 1500 RAW images) and I really like the idea of keeping cards as my ultimate backup until I get home. So I'm thinking of buying 3 cards and traveling with these rather than hard drive backups. Sorry I guess I should have posted under gear lust, oh well,

 

http://www.adorama.com/IDSCFE332G3X.html?s...258809943637321

I've been debating going from my 8gb to 16's. I have 2 - 8gb, and 4- 4gb. I figure that will cover my long trips. Plus I do have my lappy. I just get scared of the idea of losing that much info. I mean even if you have 2 32 gb's...you lose one, you lose a LOT.

Thanks Jeff nice find.

Hey guys, what are the real life implications of using a 30MB/s card like the Extreme III vrs the 60MB/s card like the Professional version? I realize it's faster of course but if shooting video on a 7D, is the camera or the card the limiting factor? I've used III's and IV's with the 40D and couldn't see a difference in normal still shooting.

Steve

Do you shoot uncompressed? With lossless compression, I'm pretty sure I get about 1,000 RAWs per 16gb on my D700.

 

The card SAYS I only have room for 620, but that seems to be some kind of weird bug ... I regularly seem to blow right past 620 and get far more.

My D700 does the same! I usually use 4GB cards but have one 16GB. Thanks for the heads-up re D700. I put two 4GB cards in a D3x and it reports 77 images per card- need to test that. That's lossless compressed and 14-bit color depth.

Wendy

Do you shoot uncompressed? With lossless compression, I'm pretty sure I get about 1,000 RAWs per 16gb on my D700.

 

The card SAYS I only have room for 620, but that seems to be some kind of weird bug ... I regularly seem to blow right past 620 and get far more.

I think I read somewhere that the number of images shown on the LCD is based on some type of average information in a full spectrum file, so the number of images may actually be more depending on the amount of information in the actual images. If I set my camera to 12 bit RAW, the LCD shows 1.6K images with the 32GB card, and 1.2K set at 12 bit.

I have actually shot over 2000 images on one card set to 12 bit.

Using 32GB cards makes a lot of sense to me ( I only have the Extreme III) for shooting and / or backup redundancy. At least on the D700, I can shoot for days on one 32GB card without needing to erase images, and carrying a few of these for further redundancy makes a lot of sense to me, a lot more compact than a HD. Nothing to stop one from even shooting with smaller cards and transferring images to these 'backup' cards instead of a hard drive. Which gets me to thinking, do any of the integrated card reader / hard drive systems allow one to copy back from a hard drive to a CF card, or do they only allow one way from card to drive?

That's a good idea loftus, download your photos in the end of every day as usual but don't erase them from the card, now you are making me spend more money!

Which gets me to thinking, do any of the integrated card reader / hard drive systems allow one to copy back from a hard drive to a CF card, or do they only allow one way from card to drive?

I use the older Hyperdrive 0 . I guess you mean copying back from the internal hard drive back to a CF Card, yup does that. Once you go through the process once it is not bad. So in other words, copying a a card to the internal drive in the reader, then then back out to another Compact Flash card for redundency works without need for a computer.

I would guess others ones do this also, but have not looked into it...

Thanks Jeff nice find.

Hey guys, what are the real life implications of using a 30MB/s card like the Extreme III vrs the 60MB/s card like the Professional version? I realize it's faster of course but if shooting video on a 7D, is the camera or the card the limiting factor? I've used III's and IV's with the 40D and couldn't see a difference in normal still shooting.

 

Steve

I also wonder if the writing speed of 30MB/sec vs 60MB/sec makes a difference. Does this writing speed make a difference when shooting 6+ frames/sec or shooting video? Can you keep shooting or does the camera stop shooting because the card transfer is not keeping up with the data input?

Elmer

I also wonder if the writing speed of 30MB/sec vs 60MB/sec makes a difference. Do this writing speed make a difference when shooting 6+ frames/sec or shooting video?

 

Elmer

I have some different cards, including some Kingston 133x, Kingston 266x and Extreme IVs. I shot videos with all cards on my 5D Mark II, mostly the Kingston 133x, and did not run into issues. But when I am shooting hi-speed on my 40D or 5D Mark II I do notice a slight difference between the Cards in terms of continuous shooting, nothing huge but once in awhile I seem to be able to squeeze out a couple of more shots with higher speed cards....I have done a couple of tests where I would just point the cameras and shoot at a still subject, nothing very formal mind you, and just shot away, the faster cards would allow me to get a shot or two more before zeroing out. The Extreme IVs run 40MB to 45MBKingston Speeds, while the Kingston 133x are at 20MB and 266x at 40MB, click on the X-Speed tab here.

If you like I can load the cameras up and run some more formal tests....

If you look Speed Results you can see read/write tests for various cards.

Basically if I think I am going to need real high perfromance/speed I will load in one of the faster (more expensive) cards, but otherwise for general shooting one of the slower cards which still work well enough. The Kingston 133x and 266x have been reliable for me and no complaints or failures, though I would probably just buy the faster ones.

So, I guess the writing speed of the card does make a difference when shooting video or continuous mode. The quicker the writing speed the sooner you can shoot again. For example with the new D3s in video it shoots 5 minute videos out of 2 GB of continuous writing space, so the quicker the data is transfered to the card, the sooner you can shoot again.

I don't think the writing speed matters much for our usual underwater photos with strobes, since the limiting factor is the recycling time of the strobe is greater than the writing time to the card. I have not noticed any difference between Extreme III and IV cards.

I just noticed that SanDisk now has an Extreme Pro compact flash card that writes at 90mb/sec and is 64GB. WOW!!

Elmer