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May 30, 2018 18:24:37   #
IR Jim Loc: St. Louis
 
TriX wrote:
👍👍 Well said (those in glass houses...). This member’s pedantic, rude and unsolicited critiques of the occasional grammatical error (often the result of an over enthusiastic spell checker rather than the poster’s misunderstanding of correct usage) have landed him on a number of ignore lists, including mine.

To return to the OP’s question, I would opt for more, smaller cards rather than one or two large ones. While unlikely, cards do occasionally fail, and better to lose a small portion rather than the entire record of the trip.
đź‘Ťđź‘Ť Well said (those in glass houses...). This me... (show quote)


Normally I would ignore grammar police but his post went beyond a simple and polite correction.

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May 30, 2018 19:39:38   #
LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field
 
dieseldave wrote:
Unless by using loose when you mean that as you review the individual pictures you delete the bad shots ,cutting them loose. This would free a significant amount of space (depending, of course, on how many shots are lost). Then save them to a disk for editing, and another external hard drive for a back up. You can then upload the final photos to a cloud and be assured that you will never be called a loser again.


Regarding your ostensible definition of Grammer school:Your use of ostensibly, would be correct, ostensibly meaning "apparently or purportedly, but perhaps not actually", since the definiton for that particular school has several meanings.

1 : a secondary school emphasizing Latin and Greek in preparation for college

2 : a British college preparatory school

3: a school intermediate between primary school and high school

4: elementary school (this is apparently your declaimed usage. which is OK, I guess. ( Although it is the last definition in Merriam-Webster . . . ) ;>0
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I don’t typically correct this stuff—although I can’t not notice it. Since you went to so much trouble, it’s “grammar”—not “grammer” unless you are referring to your “grammer & gramps”.

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May 30, 2018 20:28:05   #
rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA
 
1Feathercrest wrote:
The word for something you inadvertently have not kept, is "lose" pronounced "looze". The word "loose", pronounced "luce", (rhymes with "juice") means unfastened. Your shoelaces which are untied are "loose". You will"lose" your "loose" change if you have a hole in the pocket where you are carrying the "loose", now "lost" change which you did not take precaution to not "lose". This is grammar school stuff that you should know if you paid attention in grammar school. (Grammar school is, ostensibly, grades 1 through 8, if you are unaware of the meaning of "grammar school").
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You're an annoying frusrtated grammar school teecher aintcha?

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May 30, 2018 20:33:31   #
rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA
 
photog11 wrote:
I am preparing for a 3 week trip to Europe. It will include a 10-day river cruise (Basel to Amsterdam). Judging from my past experience, I will take between 500 and 750 photos. I use a D750 which will allow up to 292 RAW, lossless, 14 bit compressed photos per 16GB sd card. My question is: Is it better to take more 16GB cards, thus minimizing loss of photos if a card is lost or malfunctions; or to take fewer but larger capacity cards?

Any advice out there?


Yeah, I really thing that 16 Gb cards are too low a capacity for your trip, 32 Gb would be better. A recent 2 week trip to France saw me shoot an average of 200 - 400 images a day, depending on the location, and changing cards in the middle of the day is annoying. What would be even better is a Western Digital My Passport WiFi drive with an internal SD card slot and the ability to automatically backup your images.

Each night, back in the hotel, I would pull the secondary card out of the D850 and back it all up to the WD. Very fast and easy, plus provided peace of mind.

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May 30, 2018 21:15:34   #
BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA
 
1Feathercrest wrote:
The word for something you inadvertently have not kept, is "lose" pronounced "looze". The word "loose", pronounced "luce", (rhymes with "juice") means unfastened. Your shoelaces which are untied are "loose". You will"lose" your "loose" change if you have a hole in the pocket where you are carrying the "loose", now "lost" change which you did not take precaution to not "lose". This is grammar school stuff that you should know if you paid attention in grammar school. (Grammar school is, ostensibly, grades 1 through 8, if you are unaware of the meaning of "grammar school").
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The Grammar Gestapo strikes again!

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May 30, 2018 23:10:06   #
Acountry330 Loc: Dothan,Ala USA
 
Get more 16 gig cards. Better to have to many than not enough. Don't worry about spelling and pronunciation I hope you have a wonderful trip. Happy shooting.

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May 30, 2018 23:47:00   #
photog11 Loc: San Francisco
 
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
Yeah, I really thing that 16 Gb cards are too low a capacity for your trip, 32 Gb would be better. A recent 2 week trip to France saw me shoot an average of 200 - 400 images a day, depending on the location, and changing cards in the middle of the day is annoying. What would be even better is a Western Digital My Passport WiFi drive with an internal SD card slot and the ability to automatically backup your images.

Each night, back in the hotel, I would pull the secondary card out of the D850 and back it all up to the WD. Very fast and easy, plus provided peace of mind.
Yeah, I really thing that 16 Gb cards are too low ... (show quote)


That is a great idea. I doubt that I can even do 200 or more in a day. If I did, I would need 12 16 GB cards. How long does it take you to download 200 of your 46 MB files?

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May 31, 2018 06:14:43   #
Gatorcoach Loc: New Jersey
 
photog11 wrote:
I am preparing for a 3 week trip to Europe. It will include a 10-day river cruise (Basel to Amsterdam). Judging from my past experience, I will take between 500 and 750 photos. I use a D750 which will allow up to 292 RAW, lossless, 14 bit compressed photos per 16GB sd card. My question is: Is it better to take more 16GB cards, thus minimizing loss of photos if a card is lost or malfunctions; or to take fewer but larger capacity cards?

Any advice out there?


I also have a D750 and just returned from a 3 week vacation. I put a 64GB card in slot 2 and designated it as "COPY". I brought a few 16GB cards and had some 8GB lying around. Every other day or so I swapped out the cards in slot 1 and had the big card as my security backup.

It will probably become my standard practice going forward.

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May 31, 2018 06:48:17   #
mas24 Loc: Southern CA
 
A friend's son bought an extra SanDisk Ultra 128gb SD card to do video on his gifted Nikon D3400. The price for that one memory card was about $46. The prices of memory cards have reduced tremendously in the past ten years. Two each 64gb should be enough for most taking a trip. I prefer to use 32gb SD cards. I have an older Lexar 4gb card I purchased in 2009. That was considered high capacity at that time. I doubt if you can buy a 4gb SD card today?

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May 31, 2018 06:49:20   #
Skiextreme2 Loc: Northwest MA
 
IR Jim wrote:
Losing photos is painful, no matter what size you decide on I would set SD slot 2 for backup RAW. I use 2x 64GB cards.



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May 31, 2018 06:49:33   #
AlMac Loc: Newcastle Upon Tyne - UK
 
photog11 wrote:
I am preparing for a 3 week trip to Europe. It will include a 10-day river cruise (Basel to Amsterdam). Judging from my past experience, I will take between 500 and 750 photos. I use a D750 which will allow up to 292 RAW, lossless, 14 bit compressed photos per 16GB sd card. My question is: Is it better to take more 16GB cards, thus minimizing loss of photos if a card is lost or malfunctions; or to take fewer but larger capacity cards?

Any advice out there?


Don't worry about not bringing enough - we sell them over here as well.

Alan.

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May 31, 2018 07:08:37   #
bikerguy
 
I suggest that the more important issue than how many cards to take is to make sure that you backup all of your images each day. I travel with 7 32 GB sd cards, a 1 TB portable hard drive, 2 128 GB flash drives, a 64 GB flash drive and 7 32 GB micro SD cards. I have at least 2 copies of all images plus the SD card which I can reformat if the need arises. I subscribe to the theory that one cannot ever have too much backup. I had a card lose the protect slider and could not be used.

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May 31, 2018 07:11:31   #
TomV Loc: Annapolis, Maryland
 
Am I lucky or what. I have been shooting for 15 years and have never had a card go bad on me. I have been on Florida shoots that have consumed almost 2000 shots of card space in a day. I swap cards when they are starting to fill up. I have used only Lexar, Transcend, and SanDisk. if you really want to account for a rare 'what if' situation, you should use a new card for every shot, that way you only lose that shot if the card somehow goes bad.

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May 31, 2018 07:11:36   #
mborn Loc: Massachusetts
 
I would take 1-2 cards per day. Download and keep until you return home

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May 31, 2018 07:15:21   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
photog11 wrote:
I am preparing for a 3 week trip to Europe. It will include a 10-day river cruise (Basel to Amsterdam). Judging from my past experience, I will take between 500 and 750 photos. I use a D750 which will allow up to 292 RAW, lossless, 14 bit compressed photos per 16GB sd card. My question is: Is it better to take more 16GB cards, thus minimizing loss of photos if a card is lost or malfunctions; or to take fewer but larger capacity cards?

Any advice out there?


I now 32GB and 64GB cards, and I have never filled one. If a card is good, you can fill it to 75% or so, and then use another. Of course, the only way to find out a card is bad is to find out that it didn't save your pictures. That's why some people change cards often. My D750 has two card slots, and each card records each image. I leave cards in the camera as long as they have room to record. When I travel, I put the pictures from each day onto a computer and a hard drive, and I save the cards till I get home. Half a dozen cards would be plenty for me.

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