I am on a vacation trip right now that will last 4 weeks through Central Asia and then another 3 weeks in Europe and obviously take lots of pictures. With my old D90 I used to work with 4Gb and some 8Gb cards for fear of loss, but then I also just shot in jpeg fine. Since I moved to my D610, I shoot RAW + JPEG fine, so I need lots of more memory for long trips. On this trip I carry 12 32Gb cards, plus my 4 old 8Gb cards and for more security all my old 4Gb cards, about 15. As soon as a card is full, I back it up to my laptop as well as to an external 1 Tb drive I take along. I prefer to leave all the shots on the cards until I return and can load them all onto my desktop computer, but if push comes to shove, I can clean out some cards and use them for new recording.

Hi Festina Lente
You have already received a good number of suggestions, hopefully this might add a bit more. I did very much the same drive 4 years ago and it was a wonderful experience, both on the coast and the along the "volacano highway". I am on a trip right now, so I do not have all the details, but I posted a number of pictures from that trip on my photo website - if you are interested to have a look at them, you can access the website with the following link:


http://home.comcast.net/~j.weber5959/site/?/page/Visitor_Page/

Have a look at the second last album dated 2010 Aug 15 USA/Oregon, click on "Short" to see the 64 pictures. Places and time of the photos are identified.

Have a great trip
Joe

Very much the same, I do extensive travel photography, weed out a lot of pictures already in-camera on the trip, then more when I finally work on them at home. I have to repeat the process every now and then, as I find it hard to let go, but find that time and more distance to the trip eventually heals that reflexive retention attitude.

I have had my D90 for about 5 years now and have done close to 100,000 clicks on it - thus decided to move on and get a full-frame D610, which has become my main camera. I was very happy with the D90 and the AF-S Nikkor 18-200 lens, which I used exclusively as most of my pictures are travel pictures and lugging additional glass around becomes cumbersome. I can attest to the robustness of the D90 and the lens: I dropped it unprotected onto solid concrete when stepping in darkness into a hole in Bhutan, and except for a few scratches at the edge of the protective filter, and a dent in the dial that wiped out my flower symbol, nothing got damaged, but you should have seen my leg!

I print, mainly for cards, like thank you cards, birthday cards, etc. and mainly in 4 by 6 or 4 by 7 formats - I find it very satisfying to do these small artistic projects myself and have total control - also, to drive to Costco or whoever just doesn't make sense for a small print.

With my D90 and only shooting JPEG fine, I used 4 and 8 GB cards for that very reason: fear of failure or loss. Now that I mainly use my new D610 and started to shoot Raw + JPEG fine, I bought myself 10 32 GB cards (we do a lot of extended travels) and feel confident with these, of course I back them up to my notebook for security, but keep the original for final direct loading to my desk top comuter. I mainly use SanDisk but do have a few Transcend cards as well, never had a failure thus far.

Well, this is my first post on UHH - I have been watching and savoring this site with all the input from great photographic minds for about 6 months. I do not consider myself an accomplished photographer, even though I have been at it for the last 50 years or so - but the response from Rongnongno just screams for a reply. We travel extensively - up to 5/6 months a year all over the globe, and one of the joys is to capture the local flair and relive it later at home. I do not go to Europe or Asia and return with a best of 10 pictures, more like 3-6000, and then I have the joy of working on them, researching what I just took - I learn more of a trip after I return, do my research and post my pictures on my website - and I play them on a continuous loop in my home, so instead of looking at a framed print or painting, every 10 seconds I see one of my creations again on the TV and it keeps reminding me of the wonders in the world we saw. Well - I give it to you, sometimes I miss something because I look through my viewfinder, but I bet you a million bucks that I can see details and wonderful places and events that you cannot remember after a month or a year - no matter how stellar quality your memory may be. So - I feel a bit sorry for an attitude of going to Europe for 6 weeks and returning with a grand total of 10 pictures, just to say that I am not the tourist which probably you are anyway.

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