Thanks Shellback!

In the next few days, I'll be in the area of the Cheyenne Bottoms National Wildlife Refuge in central Kansas. I'm hoping to catch a lot of the migrating birds as they stop over on their way south. Has anyone shot photos there? What suggestions do you have? I'm renting a Tamron 100-400 lens for that excursion.

I agree. 32GB is risky enough. This 128GB was given to me as a gift, and I appreciate the thought.

My 128GB San Disk Pro was finally about full of mostly RAW images, so I made sure that I had transferred everything I wanted and reformatted the card in my CANON 80D, using the standard formatting option. I then shot several hundred images in the 80D. It seemed to me that the write speed to the card had degraded somewhat. It occurred to me that maybe I should have done a Low Level format, which deletes all information and data on the card, vs just the normal formatting which simply resets the file system.
So to test this hypothesis, I formatted the card again in the 80D, selected high shutter rate and set the camera to Manual. Holding the shutter down, I got 25 exposures before the buffer filled and the write speed slowed to a crawl. Then, I reformatted the card using the low level formatting option, everything else being the same, and held the shutter down until writing slowed to a crawl. This time I got 32 exposures before the buffer filled and the write speed slowed to a crawl.
So, this little experiment tells me that if you want to get the most out of a top tier high write speed SD card, you should do low level formatting rather than the quick and dirty standard in-camera formatting.
Has anyone else seen this effect?

Have you tried shothotspots.com? Sometimes it can be of help in narrowing down locations.

That's what I'm taking to Egypt next week. Seems to work pretty well.

Absolutely use the shuttle bus system. There's likely to be a parking lot close to where you're staying and it saves you all the headaches of the massive traffic during the festival.

We're taking the same trip next month. I'm planning on taking my 80D and 18-135 lens. I also have the 10-22 and 55-250, but probably won't take them.

That's what I plan on doing for our trip to Egypt/Jordan/Israel in a couple months.

This photo was taken of an artwork in frame. It was illuminated by 4 Daylight CFL bulbs placed at the centers of each edge, placed about 18" above the painting. The camera was directly over the center of the painting. I photographed the whole collection this way with good results. Some had deep frames, some had shallow. With the deep frames you have to play with the light placement to avoid shadows on the art.

Of course, I'll be taking multiple SD cards, but that's not really a backup. That just limits how much you lose if a card goes bad.

I did do a search first, but was hoping to hear some more recent experience, since the comments of a year or two ago were somewhat mixed.

Need a reliable SD card backup system for photos on our upcoming trip to Egypt, Jordan and Israel, without needing to take a laptop or tablet. Seems like the WD My Passport Wireless Pro is what a lot of people use, but it has very mixed reviews. Is that still the best option for backing up direct from camera? Camera WiFi to the cloud is also a possibility, but is pretty slow.

By the way, how do you like that combination of Canon 80D and Tamron 100-400? I've been thinking of adding that lens to my collection.