When I bought one for my camera a while back, it was the biggest card you could get. I think I spent $109. Until a couple of weeks ago, I don’t think I saw a price lower than maybe $70.
All the sudden there’s a number of suppliers at Amazon with prices of $40 or less. One of the offered a $21.95 price, and I bought one because … well … I’m skeptical.
I got it yesterday. All I can say so far is that formatting was no problem and Explorer says it has the memory its advertised to have. I’ve also moved a bunch of files to and from it without any issues. We’ll have to see how long it lasts, but I’m a happy camper at the moment.
I think a card this big is very dangerous.
I try to stick with 4GB (I have a dozen of them), since they fit neatly on a single-layer DVD.
I’d be terrified of taking an entire vacation’s worth of photos on a single card, and then having it become unreadable or losing it.
I’m interested in using a card that big, but for more than one purpose. I agree with beowulf that you shouldn’t ever rely on one card for many photos, but I’d mitigate the problem by uploading them to a cloud server every few days and keeping the originals on the card.
The other purpose I would use them for is storing music, movies, tv shows and copies of passport/ID. The same card could be used in your phone or tablet for long journeys, or just in case the weather closed in and you had a lot of spare time on your hands.
Yah, I wouldn’t put all my eggs into one basket, either. Before I had dual slot cameras, I’d stick with 4GB cards for 12MP cameras shooting raw files as well. Now that I have dual, I do two 64GB cards for about 2500 raw photos on a 24MP body.
Yeah, dual-slot cameras certainly reduce my anxiety about card failure. I have a 16MP camera, so 32GB cards are fine for most situations. It sometimes feels like a bit of a waste to write every photo to two cards, but if the day comes when a card fails, i’ll be very grateful.
Yeah, since going digital, I’ve shot over a million frames. I’ve only had 3 cards fail on me, and, luckily, I’ve been able to recover all my files all three times (though it is possible I lost a frame or two at the end–it didn’t appear like I was missing anything.) That said, now that almost all my bodies are dual slot, I shoot mirrored to two cards for everything that I’m paid for. While I’ve been lucky so far, I know several photographers who have been saved by dual-slotting it. It’s relatively cheap insurance and peace of mind (unless your camera starts writing junk data to both cards.)
My use for one of these would be to expand my storage on my Macbook which only has a 256GB flash drive. The problem is that most of my storage is for my iTunes library and I don’t think it’ll let me split that up between two volumes. (I would have to get a 256GB card to fit all my music.) Also I would want to avoid putting private stuff on the card since it’s so easy to steal or lose.
