128gb and the 5D2

I know this is probably a silly question, but I just want confirmation.

Is this card compatible? Since I do movie premieres and keep running out of card space and having to chimp/delete a lot of the time, since this is a fast paced event where you don't get a chance to breathe at most times, or would 32gb be suffice considering it's only uses up at least three cards at most? I shoot in RAW

I would go with smaller cards, they are cheaper and if you pin all your hopes on a large card, and it goes bad, you lose everything. Just a personal preference though.

TeamSpeed wrote in post #17058773
I would go with smaller cards, they are cheaper and if you pin all your hopes on a large card, and it goes bad, you lose everything. Just a personal preference though.

I can't keep changing cards at events that are very fluid in it's nature, though I do have a lot of 8gb cards

Oh well, just ordered the 32gb for the sake of keeping my mind busy on the photography side

I generally use 32GB cards in my 7D shooting sports, but could normally get away with 16 or even 8GB cards as I swap early. Invest in way more cards than you expect to need, and aim to swap the cards at the first available moment when you notice they're around the 50-75% full mark. This way you always have a spare buffer in your card if you see something happening as you start to swap and have to abort that and return to shooting faster than what finishing the swap would allow.

RichSoansPhotos wrote in post #17058798
I can't keep changing cards at events that are very fluid in it's nature, though I do have a lot of 8gb cards

Which is more detrimental to your cause, losing 128gb of data, or having to spend 10-20 sec to change a card? Putting a card holder on your camera strap makes it very easy to just open and pull out a card, and putting the other back. There are some very nice small sealed cases that hold 4 cards or more at a time.

What about upgrading to the 5D3? You get 2 slots, which could help.

TeamSpeed wrote in post #17059531
Which is more detrimental to your cause, losing 128gb of data, or having to spend 10-20 sec to change a card? Putting a card holder on your camera strap makes it very easy to just open and pull out a card, and putting the other back. There are some very nice small sealed cases that hold 4 cards or more at a time.

What about upgrading to the 5D3? You get 2 slots, which could help.

I am budgeting for one at the moment 5D3 that is, but keep hearing rumours that the 5D4 is around the corner (cripes)

TeamSpeed wrote in post #17059531
Which is more detrimental to your cause, losing 128gb of data, or having to spend 10-20 sec to change a card? Putting a card holder on your camera strap makes it very easy to just open and pull out a card, and putting the other back. There are some very nice small sealed cases that hold 4 cards or more at a time.

What about upgrading to the 5D3? You get 2 slots, which could help.

Where is the greater risk - 1 x 128gb card that never leaves the camera or having the same (or higher corruption) risk (plus the risk of loss) happening with with 8gb, 16gb, and 32Gb cards.

I am an all the eggs in one basket kind of guy

Justaddwata wrote in post #17061754
Where is the greater risk - 1 x 128gb card that never leaves the camera or having the same (or higher corruption) risk (plus the risk of loss) happening with with 8gb, 16gb, and 32Gb cards.

I am an all the eggs in one basket kind of guy

Ask the wedding and sports guys I guess, but the answer I have seen across the board has been to not put all your eggs into that one basket. The one time you lose the card, you lose EVERYTHING. The one time you lose one of the other cards for one event, you lose part of the event. I don't see a need for a large card, and go with smaller cards like 32gb. Also in 10 years, I have never physically lost a card, I have storage devices that sit on my camera bag strap, and cards either live there, or in the camera. I would hate to report back to our local basketball office that I lost the entire game, or a paying client that I lost their wedding shots. Of course with so much liability on weddings, I wouldn't shoot without a body that had 2 card slots too.

I agree with TeamSpeed. I shoot a lot of sports and normally use either 16gb or 32gb cards in the cameras. My 1D MarkIV is set to simultaneously record RAW on Card 1 and JPG on Card 2 as a backup. I did lose the files on Card 1 and could not recover anything on the card or even have it recognized. Tossed the card but still had the photos on Card 2. I use 128gb cards as storage in my ultrabook but normally stick with the two sizes mentioned above.

I'd much rather keep all my eggs in one secure basket, rather than trying to juggle several baskets of eggs.

I've been using CF cards for a dozen years and never, ever, had one fail (well, I did have one; but that was my fault as I removed it from a PDA while it was writing data to it). If I ever did have a problem with data loss I understand that there are several programs that do a good job of data recovery.

I've not lost data through card failure, but I have lost a card along with a load of images. That was in the days when I couldn't get a card large enough for a whole day's shooting (when 64MB was huge). In the heat of the moment I took the old card out and put it somewhere 'safe'. I've also seen a friend turn a strange colour when she realised the card she'd just formatted wasn't an empty one.

For several years I've used a card large enough to hold a whole day's shooting. The only way I can possibly lose it is if I lose the camera. I don't need to keep track of which card is full and which card is ready to be used.

Not sure if WiFi-capable cards are possible to use when shooting video, but at least for stills it seems like a decent way to keep down the number of eggs in the basket assuming the user has somewhere to upload the images.

pwm2 wrote in post #17063226
Not sure if WiFi-capable cards are possible to use when shooting video, but at least for stills it seems like a decent way to keep down the number of eggs in the basket assuming the user has somewhere to upload the images.

I do have somewhere to upload the photos, it's called 97% of the whole country, hahaha

Yes, 5DIII supports both 128GB CF and 128GB SD

Justaddwata wrote in post #17061754
Where is the greater risk - 1 x 128gb card that never leaves the camera or having the same (or higher corruption) risk (plus the risk of loss) happening with with 8gb, 16gb, and 32Gb cards.

I am an all the eggs in one basket kind of guy

This is hard question to answer. Let's take 1x 128GB vs 4x 32GB. With 128GB, if it fails, you lost all 128GB. With 32Gb, if one card fails, you lose only 32GB. If the probabiity of failure is same per card regardless of capacity, then 4x 32GB is better.

However, take Lexar for example, 128GB card gets stricter test and screen than 32GB card. So the probability of failure per card isn't the same between 128GB and 32GB. It is hard to say which is better.