mizzee Loc: Boston,Ma

I would be very fearful of putting my entire trip on one card. Did a photo safari and budgeted two cards a day.

b top gun

I use 32BG Sandisk Extreme Pro SD cards in my D7100. I used to use Sandisk 64GB extreme Pro in my D850, have since switched to 128GB Extreme Pro because they have come down in price significantly. I have my D850 set up so that my stills go to the SD cards and videos go to a 128GB XQD card. When I got my Z8 I set it up similarly; 128GB SD for stills and 128GB CF Express for videos. When I go on a Nikon holiday, I use new cards formatted in each camera and use those cards only once.

Robertl594 Loc: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Nantucket

I use smaller fast memory cards. I never go larger than 128gb 1700mps for several reasons.
1. I shoot (RAW only) a lot and have never filled up a card
2. Smaller cards are much cheaper and go on sale frequently. I buy them strategically when they go on sale.
3. Cards do go bad. I would not want to risk having all my images on a single card.
I am on an 8 week international trip now. I took 10 128gm 1700mps cards with me. I did take my computer however. I also have several SanDisk Extreme 4tb usb drives that I transfer my photos to daily as backups. That way I do have redundancy, just in case.
Hope you find this helpful.

These are the cards I use.
https://progradedigital.com/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&_kx=NdPbBOCYrSQipKdMfKNljpxwlsaX2TjjPPsbBcqwff0.M4gRwE

bikerguy

We just returned from a 12 day photo tour and shot over 20,000 images. Our cameras (OM-1) have two slots. Both write the raw files so that we have immediate backups. In the past we have used a tablet, an on the go plug card reader and and SSD to back up our shots as well. If the images are important have at least one back up.

GLSmith Loc: Tampa, Fl

With all of the well meaning ideas, just make sure you format the SD cards in the camera, not in the PC/MAC

Hal Masover Loc: Iowa and Florida

Thanks. I've heard good things about ProGrade on this forum before. I only recently bought my D850 and bought a Lexar CF Express B reader and a Lexar CFE card. That setup didn't work well as it took something like 6 hours to upload photos from a wedding. Lexar was very kind and refunded my money for the reader but I haven't replaced it yet. What reader are you using for your CFE B card?

charlienow Loc: Hershey, PA

I use 2 methods to store files when I travel. The first is a Western Digital My Passport Wireless Pro. when I get back to our room I start the copy of my card to the drive. If I have more than one card I repeat the operation. I have a large number of cd cards that I number starting at one. I replace the card in the camera with the next number at least once a day and put the used card back in the slot in my case where it came from, face up. If I get back to the first card I put the card back in the slot upside down. That shows me I used the card twice. These are all raw files.

the XQD slot I set to jpg and use this slot for backup. It is a 512 and I have never filled it up. I format the card before starting a trip.

When I get home I download the raw files to a folder for the trip or whatever. I also download the jpegs from the XQD card if there are any I want to share before I edit. (I hate editing for the most part).

I have an external gps for each of my Nikon cameras. Once I get all the pictures downloaded I sort them by date and time. I then rename the files usually by location. Usually make a sub directory for the location.

By the way. Be sure to test new cards they work in your camera. I bought a ten pack of cards that did not work in my d500 but did work in my d7200 just fine

Have a great trip

Chuck

Hal Masover Loc: Iowa and Florida

Thank you. And thanks for the tip about testing cards. That's very odd that they would work on a D7200 and not a D500 but now I have been warned and so will test! :)

kotography4u

Hi - I've looked at Amazon and Ebay to see if I could find this price and couldn't locate anything that inexpensive - can you tell me where you located this price? I have a similar need...
Thanks
Kevin

Hal Masover Loc: Iowa and Florida

It was on eBay and the seller just had 8 cards, new in the wrapper. I bought all 8. There's a new function, at least new to me, on eBay called make an offer. I think the seller was asking something like $12 each and I offered $8 and the offer was accepted.

charles brown Loc: Tennesse

I use a new card every day when travelling. Low-capacity SD cards are cheap and are reuseable.

kotography4u

Got it - thanks for letting me know!

Bruce T Loc: Michigan

If I am traveling and I don’t want to pack my computer, I use my NewQ FileHub. It allows me to take the data from my SD card and download the images to my 1TB SanDisk SSD.
It is all self contained. You can download software so that you can see the images on your phone or tablet.

Dim Flash Loc: Canton, Michigan

I travel with a Canon r6mii. It has 2 sd card slots. I have slot one set up as JPG and slot two set up as raw. I travel with 28 128 GB sd cards inserting another one at the start of each day. I do not carry a laptop.This gives me two week of photos with a backup if a card fails. Sd cards from the major vendors SanDisk, Lexar and Kingston are extremely reliable. I the last 18 years I have yet to have a card go bad. They are reformatted before they are reused.

Hal Masover Loc: Iowa and Florida

Let me see if I understand what this thing does. It's got a card reader built in so I insert my SD card into it and it reads my card and transfers my data to a device I plug into it. (Yes, I know if can work wirelessly but stay with me). So it's not an SSD drive itself, it just transfers data from an SD card to an SSD. Am I understanding it correctly?