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Jul 10, 2018 09:10:35   #
DavidPine Loc: Fredericksburg, TX
 
I usually take 128's and 64's. I hardly use 32's any longer.

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Jul 10, 2018 09:14:19   #
rstipe Loc: S. Florida
 
Personally,I wouldn't go larger than 64gb.

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Jul 10, 2018 09:20:32   #
TonyF Loc: Bradenton, FL
 
BassmanBruce wrote:
Well, this is just my way, but I would take a half dozen 16gb cards. Just keeping the eggs in different baskets and having enough room for all my shots.




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Jul 10, 2018 09:40:31   #
RolandDieter
 
Vastly better to have too many cards than too few. Also, I have had two card failures on European trips, so the above advice of having spares is critically important. I would choose size based on file size of your typical shot, so this size would vary by camera resolution (your SX50 is only 12 megapixel, but with its relatively slow lens the lower resolution will help in low light -- think cities at dusk). Card size preference will also vary by whether you make the shots in Jpeg, Raw or both (your camera has the options). If Jpeg only 32 or 64 should be enough for a day -- if Raw or both you might want 64 or 128. And keep in mind that you will undoubtedly find that you will shoot many, many more shots than you expected to shoot before going.

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Jul 10, 2018 09:50:04   #
ggenova64
 
I agree with using 32GB or 64GB, but 128GB is currently not cost effective. I disagree with not creating a RAW file. Always have a JPEG file and RAW file, so down the road to have more options in Post Processing the images.

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Jul 10, 2018 10:09:11   #
James R. Kyle Loc: Saint Louis, Missouri (A Suburb of Ferguson)
 
BassmanBruce wrote:
Well, this is just my way, but I would take a half dozen 16gb cards. Just keeping the eggs in different baskets and having enough room for all my shots.


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YES!

I agree with the "Half-Dozen 16's".

And if you can - a laptop and or "Reader/Storage" drive (where one would put in a mem-card and push a button that will read and backup the images on that card.) I have one of those ("Photo-Safe" by name) and used it for the past 10 years without problems.

Remember to NEVER turn off the camera when the "buffer" is dumping to the card. I did this once and had to use another card to finish a shoot. Later on, in my motel room, I used a "Card Recovery" program to get the images off the card. The card was not bad - as I reformatted it and was able to make use of it for the next day's shoot.

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Jul 10, 2018 10:28:22   #
chapjohn Loc: Tigard, Oregon
 
Before you decide how many GB's you want, you need to know what size GB card your camera can use.

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Jul 10, 2018 10:30:45   #
bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA
 
Ava'sPapa wrote:
My wife and I will be traveling to Italy soon and for convenience sake I'll be bringing my SX50. It'll only be for 11 days, but I'm sure I'll be taking plenty of photos and maybe a few movies. Around here I use a Sandisk Ultra 16 GB card. So my question to you seasoned travelers is this...what size card should I use ? 128 Pro or is that overkill ?


You can easily figure the answer out. Take the number of pictures you typically would shoot in an 11 day trip and multiply it by the average size of the files your camera makes. Tack on a little extra for reserve and that will tell you how much memory space you will need.

For example, I have a Nikon D800. I always shoot RAW so my typical computer files average 41 Mb for each exposure. I typically shoot about 1500 exposures a week when I travel so 41 Mb time 1500 exposures equals 61,500 Gb. I can therefore get seven days of shooting on a 64 Gb flash memory card. Since I typically go on vacation for two weeks or more, I keep both a 128 Gb CF and SDHC card in my camera (one memory backs up the other). I also carry 256 Gb cards in my travel kit.

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Jul 10, 2018 10:52:14   #
gsmith051 Loc: Fairfield Glade, TN
 
I take a bunch of 16GB cards rather than a few larger ones. For me it makes it easier to track what I shoot each day and if a card fails I haven’t lost everything. Have a great time.

/George

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Jul 10, 2018 11:04:59   #
jak86094
 
Do you plan on keeping everything on the cards until you return. Even if you back-up each night (a good idea) to a computer or backup drive of some sort, if you are not reformatting and reusing the cards during your trip, you’ll need to take more or bigger cards. Enjoy the trip. I’ve been to Italy, but have not done Rome yet. Share your highlights when you can.

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Jul 10, 2018 11:17:04   #
PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA
 
Ava'sPapa wrote:
My wife and I will be traveling to Italy soon and for convenience sake I'll be bringing my SX50. It'll only be for 11 days, but I'm sure I'll be taking plenty of photos and maybe a few movies. Around here I use a Sandisk Ultra 16 GB card. So my question to you seasoned travelers is this...what size card should I use ? 128 Pro or is that overkill ?


My personal experience has been to carry a few extra cards of a size that will hold more than enough photos from one day and download the photos to my laptop computer at the end of each day. If you can't include your laptop, or some storage device, keep each day's card separate and download them immediately on return home. I have plenty of memory cards and probably it is overkill, but I feel it is better to have too many than too few. I also carry two identical cameras, each with a different length lens so I am "prepared for everything".

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Jul 10, 2018 11:33:13   #
speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho
 
Ava'sPapa wrote:
My wife and I will be traveling to Italy soon and for convenience sake I'll be bringing my SX50. It'll only be for 11 days, but I'm sure I'll be taking plenty of photos and maybe a few movies. Around here I use a Sandisk Ultra 16 GB card. So my question to you seasoned travelers is this...what size card should I use ? 128 Pro or is that overkill ?
I don't think that is overkill, probably a couple of them would be better. Memory is cheap these days and the files from that tiny SX50 are very small, but one can never have enough memory!

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Jul 10, 2018 11:43:10   #
htbrown Loc: San Francisco Bay Area
 
Ava'sPapa wrote:
My wife and I will be traveling to Italy soon and for convenience sake I'll be bringing my SX50. It'll only be for 11 days, but I'm sure I'll be taking plenty of photos and maybe a few movies. Around here I use a Sandisk Ultra 16 GB card. So my question to you seasoned travelers is this...what size card should I use ? 128 Pro or is that overkill ?


I shoot raw+jpg, and have rarely shot more than 4GB in a day, and usually much less. (4GB is still a lot of pictures). Of course, my aging camera is 12MP. If yours is more, adjust accordingly. When I travel, I figure 4GB/day as a rule of thumb, and insure I have at least that much space in my cards. That way I never have to worry about running out of card space.

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Jul 10, 2018 12:29:20   #
Bear2 Loc: Southeast,, MI
 
Ava'sPapa wrote:
My wife and I will be traveling to Italy soon and for convenience sake I'll be bringing my SX50. It'll only be for 11 days, but I'm sure I'll be taking plenty of photos and maybe a few movies. Around here I use a Sandisk Ultra 16 GB card. So my question to you seasoned travelers is this...what size card should I use ? 128 Pro or is that overkill ?


Take several 16gb cards, and change frequently. Take a portable external hard drive from WD (Western Digital). Has a SD card slot, and put your cards in and download into the external nightly. Format your SD cards when necessary and reuse.
Duane

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Jul 10, 2018 12:47:44   #
df61743 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX
 
I travel with an SX-60 and my wife carries an SX-50. Both are populated with 128GB cards, and I carry one spare 128GB card that has never been needed for either camera. That way, there is plenty of room on that card for the entire trip, including however much video I want to shoot. In fact, I have two DSLR bodies and four point-and-shoot cameras. Cards are so cheap that I can't think of a good reason not to insert the biggest cards they will support, which is what I do.

I believe that all this hype about failing cards is a little like always wearing a lightning rod in case you get struck by lightning. You're protecting yourself from something that almost never happens. In years of shooting with digital cameras, I've never had a card fail. It may or may not have something to do with using only Sandisk cards purchased only from reputable dealers.

That said though, for added protection against card failure, I carry a 4TB wireless Passport drive. At the end of each day I simply copy that days shoot to the Passport. When I get home, I have two complete copies of the entire trip. One copy on the camera and one copy on the Passport. If you want to browse the photos and videos on the Passport while traveling you can connect to it via wifi and access anything on the passport drive from a smart phone, tablet, or computer. My Passport has a copy of our favorite music and some movies that we can stream to a tablet, so we can have music in our hotel room or watch movies of our choice while traveling.

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