Both my Nikon Bodies have two card slots. Not an issue. I only recall one photo shoot when I filled them up, but I always have a few spares in my bag.
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Need a device to copy SD card to HDD without a computer
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WD My Passport Wireless Pro
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Looks like a good solution, but I could buy a lot of SD cards for $150.
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Understood but the original question was how to copy them. Remember every additional card is another point of failure. That is why I use 128GB cards in my E-M1 II. I use Lexar cards. If I had to start over buying new SD cards, I would purchasing the Sony G series 128GB.
Right now in the field I just use my iPad Pro 512GB. I will store around 30,000 raw files from my camera. I can use Image Capture to pull them off into my iMac.
Right now in the field I just use my iPad Pro 512GB. I will store around 30,000 raw files from my camera. I can use Image Capture to pull them off into my iMac.
I use Sandisk and have never had one fail. As I have duel slots in both my cameras, I've got to have two fail before I lose a picture.
A bit off-topic as this has absolutely zero to do with transferring images out in the field...
I've never understood the habit of using such huge SD cards, if they crap themselves, that's a heck of a lot of images lost! I read somewhere on the interwebz a few years ago that 32GB was the magic threshold in this regard. I have caboodles of 32GB Class 10 SD cards, and spread the load across them for a days shoot, never keeping all the images on one.
As to more cards being more points of failure, that should say "potential" in there somewhere. I've never had any problems with my method of sharing the images across multiple cards. I'm sure that one day one of my cards will crap itself, but, by having the images stored on multiple cards, I'll only lose a small section of my images, not all of them.
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I have never understood want to change out, handle, and track a handful of cards if the two in the body can stay there until time backup at night or even until time to come home. That approach has worked for me.
I don't have the option of two cards in my camera. There's only one slot and I work to a very tight budget, so a different camera is not an option for me at this stage. An SD card wrap with a dozen SD cards in it takes up no room at all.
The beauty of this photography hobby is that we can all do things in our own way, and there are many ways to do almost every aspect of it!
Another piece of advice I read was if traveling always keep your SD cards on you. So if the worst happens and your bag is stolen you still have your images.I don't have the option of two cards in my camera. There's only one slot and I work to a very tight budget, so a different camera is not an option for me at this stage. An SD card wrap with a dozen SD cards in it takes up no room at all.
The beauty of this photography hobby is that we can all do things in our own way, and there are many ways to do almost every aspect of it!
Agreed. Keep you card wallet near your passport, money, and credit cards.
I like when some companies try to tell you to depend on the cloud for flawless transport of your thousands of raw images home after a week or two in backwoods Alaska or on safari in Africa. They forget there might not be any Internet and if there is, it is barely able to handle email without attachments.
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All I use the cloud for is to sync my text documents, a few spreadsheets, web browsing bookmarks and emails.
I couldn't think of anything worse than trying to sync RAW files via the cloud! Imagine doing that if you had a Sony A7III or Nikon 850.
All I use the cloud for is to sync my text documents, a few spreadsheets, web browsing bookmarks and emails.
I couldn't think of anything worse than trying to sync RAW files via the cloud! Imagine doing that if you had a Sony A7III or Nikon 850.
So, I am headed off for a one week family trip w/ young kids. Plan on taking as many videos as possible. I was debating on buying more SD cards or getting the "My Passport Wireless Pro" External hard drive as mentioned a few post up and just downloading the videos onto that and keeping the SD cards I already have. Being that I am no professional and just want to make sure I do not run out of memory for the videos, what do you guys suggest?
Thank you for attempting to introduce logic and reality to people's need to spend on tech.
While I share your experience with cards, I have had several friends bring their "broken" SD cards over in the hopes of retrieving their once in a lifetime photos, thousands of them. I figure my successful retrieval rate is around 98% to 100%. Hopefully the estimated 2% did not include any precious life moments. As I continue to cull about 80% of what I shoot.
But people have a neeed to buy gadgets. There's a couple of day old post on DPR. A user's experience with the Passport Wireless Pro. Part of the long passage of providing disappointment with backup devices and the promise of better solutions to come. Seems I took an SD card reader and a Palm Pilot on a trip in 2005. Nothing has changed since then.
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I ended up on long trips making my first copying my images into my iPad Pro. Second copy is made onto a WD Passport Pro. On the iPad I can cull and do light editing with Lr Mobile or Raw Power. Once both copies are made, the card is reformatted in camera and reused the following day.
When I get home I use Image Capture on the iMac to import into a temp folder. Then I have Lr import from the temp folder into my /Pictures containment tree of folders and subfolders. Lr will also do the file renaming I want done.
When I get home I use Image Capture on the iMac to import into a temp folder. Then I have Lr import from the temp folder into my /Pictures containment tree of folders and subfolders. Lr will also do the file renaming I want done.