A data point. On my round-the-country driving trip, which was about 40
days duration, I shot exclusively raw with the 5D. That produced 3700
images occupying 46GB. That's less than 100 images/day although on some
days I didn't shoot at all and on other days very heavily. But it was
also not primarily a photo expedition. Many times did I hear my
beautiful bride say: "C'mon, let's go. You've got enough." :-)
Based on the last bargain rebate deal from Sandisk through Adorama I now
have 40 GB of flash card capacity (4x8GB, 6x2GB, 2x1GB). I'm wondering
if I'll ever see such a deal again. Including taxes and shipping three
of these Sandisk 8GB Extreme III cards only cost about $8 each after
rebate. If I can find another deal like that I'll just back up from the
laptop to another CF card. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
khen lim wrote:
> 2008/12/17 Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> 80GB????? What are people shooting? I honestly don't get it. I
>> absolutely
>> have no clue how somebody can wad up 80GB and then still have time to
>> image-manage at night. Personally, once the sun goes down, I'd rather be
>> enjoying a nice evening with friends or family of copious amounts of food
>> and drink.
>
>
> Bud, if a person uses a 20+ megapixel camera and shoots purely in RAW - or
> worse, RAW+JPEG - for every single frame, you'll soon drive up the gigabyte
> count. Add some complex noise reduction algorithm to each image (especially
> if you're shooting in near-dark situations) and that figure will rise
> further.
> You can do the arithmetic here (I didn't) and I'm fairly sure you would be
> reaching somewhere reasonably close.
>
>
>> AG
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