one big card or many small cards

Need a suggestion please.

Would it be safer to have 4 or 5 small memory cards like 16GB or one large card example -64 to 128GB while travelling.

Also any specific brand which can withstand high altitudes and low temperatures?

Laksh

Too small and you'll run into the possibility of losing cards. Too large and you run the risk of losing images if the card gets corrupted. I run 32GB and 64GB cards usually. I am now currently running 128GB due to switching to Sony and their 4k video recording eats memory

One large card and
https://www.wdc.com …assport-wireless-pro.html
for backup.

I don't do video, so prefer several smaller cards. Only you can decide what's best for you.

Small cards for me. I don't put all my eggs into one basket...too many issues can come up and ruin your entire trip if you go out on the limb with 1 card.

If I was traveling I would buy 32 gig cards, which is what I always buy, and upload to Dropbox regularly.

You can fit an amazing amount of photos on one 32 gig card, and they are cheap.

thanks for all your help

i dont much of video mainly stills only.

so which card would be good a normal class 10 32 GB?

Laksh

I have lots of 32Gb cards. I believe they would be thought of as small these days but they work well for me. They hold over 700 RAW files from my 5DIV and that is normally more than enough for me.

When I travel I like to have a card per day. I copy them to my laptop and keep the photos on the card.

thanks for the help

one quick question would cards like extreme pro or extreme have any use in my camera T6 from canon.

Would save me some money

Thanks again and lovely sports pics bob

Laksh

My pics at https://www.flickr.com​/photos/lakshmant/ i am a crazy train buff

Lose shots once and you'll adapt quickly. I have a variety of 8, 16 and 32GB cards and write to both cards in camera for redundancy.

laksht wrote in post #18684543
Need a suggestion please.

Would it be safer to have 4 or 5 small memory cards like 16GB or one large card example -64 to 128GB while travelling.

Also any specific brand which can withstand high altitudes and low temperatures?

Laksh

High altitude has no effect on NAND flash. Low temperature depends on what is low by your definition. To 0C or 32F, there shouldn't be any difference. If you need to go to -15 or -25C, which is very unlikely, then you may want to get the higher end card. From technical point of view, 2D NAND TLC is what you don't want for that kind of temperature. All other types, 2D MLC, 3D TLC,.. should be fine.

As for size of memory card, assuming you are talking about SD cards, if you are buying new today, get something bigger than 16GB. Maybe 32 or 64 to start. Today's NAND flash almost don't come in 16GB (or 128Gbit) die. The smallest is 32GB (256Gb) die. So how does anyone get 16GB card? 1)for every high speed card, they use NAND in SLC. This is good. or 2) for lower grade card (sandisk Ultra) NAND in most of these capacity card is from "reclaim" memory.

So my recommendation:
1) don't buy 16GB Ultra or similar grade. For this grade, get something bigger than 32GB
2) OK to get 16GB extreme or extreme pro card

If you are talking about CF, then anything should be OK. CF NAND quality is generally very high.

laksht wrote in post #18684654
thanks for the help

one quick question would cards like extreme pro or extreme have any use in my camera T6 from canon.

Between these, just get Extreme if you want to save some money. T6 isn't likely to be able take full advantage of Extreme Pro.

I use some old 8 GB cards when I'm just taking a few snaps around the house since its quicker to get the dozen latest shots into Lightroom without having to thumbnail a thousand+ first.

My main cards are 32 GB which means I'm unlikely to need to change a card while out. If I carried four 8 GB cards instead in an attempt to spread the risk, then I'd probably run out of space at a bad time.

I have a 128 GB card that I use when I know I'm going to be machine gunning it, such as at an air show or sporting event.

I have a 5D3 and keep a 128 GB SD card in the camera as a backup in case the CF card dies. I have to take it out when I know I'll be doing a lot of bursts since it can't keep up.

Thank you for your help.

I was mentioning about SD cards only as my camera does not shoot CF

Laksh

The majority of my cards are 32gb which works well for me. Plus all my bodies take two cards for safety.