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may sound stupid but is there a limit to how big a memory card i can have in my camera?

its just im going over to boston in August and i dont want to get over there and fill my card up and miss out on photos (i do have a 4gb card and doubt ill fill it tbh but i want to be safe and get a new one)

but is there a limit to the size of card i can have? or would it be better to get another 4gb instead of something say 8gb or 16gb
 
It all depends on how upset you would get if your memory card packed up :(

tbh its better to take a couple of smaller cards and the if one packs up you havent lost everything :)
 
when i went to the monte carlo rallye we incorporated 2 full days touriting it in monaco, including a night there so had a LOT of photo opportunities (light up fountains with royal casino in the background etc etc)

I tokk an 8GB card and 4x 2GB cards, had 100 shots on the final 2GB card left by the time i got home!

Look into spare batteries as well!
 
There may be a limit. Is it the 1000d you are thinking of?

Personally, I have several small (erm, well, not 8g) cards.
I keep them locked in the safe at hotels. With many smaller cards, should one stop working, or be stolen, then the others will continue to work/still have photos on.
 
yeh its for the 1000d, thinking i may get either a few 2gb cards or 4gb would be the highest id go after whats been said, tbf never even come close to filling the one i have (but tbf i dont use it as much as id like :()

as for spare batteries i have had a look but the prices vary so much when you dont get a branded one i mean i have seen a 'expro' one for £9 and a hama one for £40ish. so i expect the cheaper one wont last as long.
 
I took almost 16g worth on a 1 week cruise+1 week in Florida last year. Apart from hard disk space, (and the possible annoyance of the other half), one advantage of digital for me is that I don't have to decide immediately if a scene is good, or whether there is a better one around the corner.
Wallmart in Florida were selling reasonably costed 4GB Lexar cards, which worked fine for me.
I found the jessops battery for my 400D lasts at least 50% longer than the Canon one of the same age and use.
 
Matt L said:
as for spare batteries i have had a look but the prices vary so much when you dont get a branded one i mean i have seen a 'expro' one for £9 and a hama one for £40ish. so i expect the cheaper one wont last as long.
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I don't have any experience of "expro", but I have some cheap batts, which came in packs of 2 for £15, and they are fine - last as long as the genuine one.
 
Well - as to batteries - i've had 4 (2 packs of 2) of these and they've been excellent - run pretty much the same duration as the Canon original that came with the camera - arrived within 2 days each time - and at that price you can buy 6 of them for the price warehouse express want for a single canon original.

Oh - canon original is 1080mAh btw.
 
ive got a 16 gig card, i will never ever fill it, looking to downsize to a couple of 4 gigs probably. but yeah if it did pack in id be gutted.
 
Yes, cheaper batteries still last at least as long if not longer than the canon originals for a fraction of the price. Only canon originals that I have were the ones which came with the cameras. Have used cheaper ones with absolutely no problems. Think I got them from Kerso on here.
 
I have a couple of 8GB cards for my 5D, but always travel with a cheap netbook so I can dump the photos onto if I need the space...

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Matt L said:
may sound stupid but is there a limit to how big a memory card i can have in my camera?

its just im going over to boston in August and i dont want to get over there and fill my card up and miss out on photos (i do have a 4gb card and doubt ill fill it tbh but i want to be safe and get a new one)

but is there a limit to the size of card i can have? or would it be better to get another 4gb instead of something say 8gb or 16gb
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I travel with one 4GB card and have to offload it to DVD couple of times (I only shoot RAW now). another 4GB would be good, but I would not buy 16GB as there is a risk of loosing or damaging it and all the photos with it! However if I upgrade to a camera with HD video, the big memory would have an apeal
 
Your better off having a couple of smaller cards rather than one large one, you would kick yourself if your card packed up, a least you would have a spare to fall back on.

Cards dont last for ever and it could pack up.

Good Luck
 
Cards dont last for ever and it could pack up.
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Sorry to jump in but, how long do they stay reliable, I thought that barring physical damage, they lasted indefinately.
 
People worry too much about cards packing up. How many people have a card go wrong compared to people that don't?! I've use several cards and the oldest is a 2gig from back in my D100 days so that's got to be maybe 5 years old? Still works just fine today on the very rare occassion it's needed.

Of course there will be someone out there with a failed card story but it's a very rare thing IMO.
 
as for spare batteries i have had a look but the prices vary so much when you dont get a branded one i mean i have seen a 'expro' one for £9 and a hama one for £40ish. so i expect the cheaper one wont last as long.
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Just a note of caution here....

I can only comment on Nikon cameras as that is what I shoot. I am aware that Nikon state that the use of non Nikon branded batteries will invalidate the cameras guarantee in the event of a battery malfunction. I expect that Canon have a similar disclaimer as well. :rules:

This may not concern you, and to be fair I use a mix of Nikon and other brand batteries and have not had a problem with either. It is still a case of buyer beware.;)
 
I have had a 4GB card pack up on me in my personal life. Through work, I have had around 4 USB sticks and a flash card.
Not through mis-use, just there is a limited write life to these devices.

In all, probably not something that you need to worry about too much. At say 1 in 100,000 cards going faulty is it really a problem (number off the top of my head).
However, numerically speaking, if you are unlucky enough to have the 1 out of 100,000 wouldn't you rather that it was a smaller card that had less on?

Statistically, having more cards gives you a better stochastic chance of having a failure. But, deterministically, the effect of that failure would be less of an impact.
 
7dayshop have suitable batteries for less than a fiver each, buy 2 or 4 and a few 4gb cards and you'll be fine.
 
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Not through mis-use, just there is a limited write life to these devices.
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Generally 80-100,000 times though, the question was raised when ssd hard drives first appeared and it was agreed that 80,000 write cycles equated to 5 or 6 years life for a hard drive, much much longer for a cf card I'd have thought.
 
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