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pylon · 01-02-2011, 08:22 PM

I store one on my computer, one on my external, and now, with how ridiculously cheap sd cards are, once I fill the card with quality photos, I simply lock and tag the card. In reality, I find 1 of evey 5 pphotos I take, is really worth keeping long term, and as I download onto my computer, I delete the just okay stuff off the card, and keep the really memorable stuff on it. Once I fill the card, I simply stop using it, and put it in my safe, and treat it like a set of negatives.

On a 16GB or 32 GB card, at 15 or 18 mp, depending on what I am shooting with, it still works out to around 500-1000 photos per card, for what, $50? Imagine the cost if that was film. Plus by the time you fill your $50 card with actual good pictures, in reality, it is probably a $5 or $10 card due to depreciation. In the past people were lucky to take 500 great photos their whole lives on film, and with digital media, people just tend to put it in burst mode, hold the trigger down in auto setting, on their $1500 dslr with the stock lens (with a flower hood of course, in a dark setting.. lol) and think they are the worlds next great photographer. They end up having so many average pictures, they don't know what truly makes one great, and they get lost in their thousands of bad shots.

Also think of this, with what you spent on the external, and the thumb drives, how many SD cards could you have bought? Think about it.

01-02-2011, 08:22 PM	#3
pylon Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Jul 2007 Exp:	I store one on my computer, one on my external, and now, with how ridiculously cheap sd cards are, once I fill the card with quality photos, I simply lock and tag the card. In reality, I find 1 of evey 5 pphotos I take, is really worth keeping long term, and as I download onto my computer, I delete the just okay stuff off the card, and keep the really memorable stuff on it. Once I fill the card, I simply stop using it, and put it in my safe, and treat it like a set of negatives. On a 16GB or 32 GB card, at 15 or 18 mp, depending on what I am shooting with, it still works out to around 500-1000 photos per card, for what, $50? Imagine the cost if that was film. Plus by the time you fill your $50 card with actual good pictures, in reality, it is probably a $5 or $10 card due to depreciation. In the past people were lucky to take 500 great photos their whole lives on film, and with digital media, people just tend to put it in burst mode, hold the trigger down in auto setting, on their $1500 dslr with the stock lens (with a flower hood of course, in a dark setting.. lol) and think they are the worlds next great photographer. They end up having so many average pictures, they don't know what truly makes one great, and they get lost in their thousands of bad shots. Also think of this, with what you spent on the external, and the thumb drives, how many SD cards could you have bought? Think about it.