SBrodsky Loc: Northern Colorado

A B & H "Deal of the Day" has San Disk 90 64 gig cards for $36. Any advantage to these vs the 32s, which I've been using. My DSLR has 2 card slots.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Supply the link so we know exactly which SanDisk cards you are talking about. If they are slow cards, I wouldn't buy them but if they are just as fast as the 32GB cards I use or you use, then the advantage is more space.

rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin

Mr. Brodsky - Are you familiar with the old expression, “putting all your eggs in one basket”? Yes, you can buy ever-larger memory cards these days. That is great news. However, it means that if the card fails, you stand to lose twice as many (or more) images. Doesn’t sound that prudent to me in that light. I assume you are speaking of the SanDisk Extreme Pro 90 MB/s 64GB cards for $32 at B&H.

big-guy Loc: Peterborough Ontario Canada

Of course you can go the other way and purchase 1 card for every photo taken.... I mean really! Just how often do cards go bad instantaneously? Almost always they give warning signs before disaster strikes. Bad things happen on occasion but that doesn't mean we have to treat each and every life event with negativity, doom and gloom.

rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin

SBrodsky - I’m not preaching “doom and gloom”, just practical, experienced advice as it has been set forth in a number of previous UHH topics on this identical subject. You are free to buy your choice of whatever is recommended as far as manufacturers/card sizes for your camera. A lot of UHH members report card-related issues and many who previously bought mega-sized cards tend to go back to using smaller cards. Only a silly troll would foolishly suggest using one card per image.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Now you're just being silly. I buy cards that hold between 250 or 500 images, approx. When I'm shooting active sports, I'll use the 500 image cards. I even have a couple cards that hold 1000 images, for very high speed shooting situations and a lot of bursts. When shooting more sedentary stuff at a slower pace, I'll sometimes use the 250.



I've had cards go bad twice and there was no warning at all. But there are other things that can happen, besides failure. Cards get forgotten in pockets and go through the laundry. And they get lost at times.

I recall a few years ago, someone posted on a forum they'd found a memory card in the street.... full of several hundred wedding photos. After they displayed a few of the photos, some forum participants recognized the neighborhood and even the church. Since they had the date in the EXIF, once they knew the location someone contacted the church and was able to find out the name and contact info for the bride and groom and photographer... who were all very happy to get the photos back!

Ever since watching that story unfold... and realizing that it easily might not have ended so happily... I make a point of writing my name, phone # and email address on my memory cards.



Buying and using several memory cards to minimize chance of loss hardly qualifies as "doom and gloom". In fact I think it's just plain common sense.

The only thing is that using 16 or 18 memory cards calls for a bit of organizing. Plus it sometimes means changing cards during fast shooting situations. But, with practice it only takes a few seconds to replace a memory card and format it.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Once burned -Twice shy
I had a 2gb card corrupt a few yrs back, Bad thing: it was the last set of images from the session (the best images), good thing: I was able to recover the images, bad thing : the recovery software also recovered images from previous sessions even thought the card had been reformatted in camera after every download and gave the images random numbers. so after 12 hrs of sorting thru all of the images I was able to fine the images I needed. I guess recovery software has changed since then , but can you imagine sorting thru 64 gb of images? If I could easily obtain 2gb cards I would still be using them. Whats worse would be losing a card with all of the images on it.

SBrodsky Loc: Northern Colorado

Correct-the San Disk Extreme Pro 90 MBS 64G. Since I don't always shoot in burst mode, video, or in Raw, I figure 2 32s work just fine. The everyday price@ Best Buy for these is $27.99-about 30 bucks, w/tax. The other part of the equation is, we as photogs , need to clean up our older cards, to make more space.

Novicus Loc: north and east

I Like Big Fast Cards...the Bigger and Faster the Better...Thing is , are they what they`re advertised to be...