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.