You wouldn't want an 8 gig card. It's not cost efficient. But you might
want five one gig cards. That relieves you of the burden of downloading
files in the field, and it's safer memory than the compact drive. In
lieu of a compact drive, I use a laptop, which is no better or worse,
just less manageable and more useful. In terms of memory stability,
it's similar. But I carry at least five gigs of CF and clear card
memory only if I must. I sometimes download just to look at what I've
shot, but leave the cards full until I can get home and download them
to my stationary drives and DVD backup.
Paul
On Oct 14, 2005, at 12:55 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:
Hi!
Thanks to a certain list member ;-), I am now enabled with Compact
Drive PD7X. Wonderful little creature - can charge your batteries, can
read your cards, can copy them onto its internal hard drive. All in
all, now I have 12 GB more of space that I can take with me.
Here comes the question.
Say, I am a shooter shooting somewhere on some location. I have my two
trusty 1 GB SandDisk cards and my quite reliable PD7X. One card is
filled, I plug it to PD7X and load the other card to the camera. Then
I repeat this "trick" when the second card is filled and so on.
Here is the question. Why on earth I would want to buy a 8GB compact
flash (for serious money) if I can buy a couple of 1 GBs and as much
as 80GB hard drive for PD7X?
I am not talking about extreme conditions or shooting with MF digital
back. I am talking about regular amateur shooting with 6-8 MP camera
on his vacation or some other favorite photo location of his.
What do you say?
Boris
