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[Oncoming]

Hi all, I'm going to Otakon as a first-timer and was wondering what was the most shots anyone took in a single day. I'm trying to eliminate or avoid going back to the hotelroom to dump images on my computer.

I shot around 900-1000 during my busiest day at Quakecon last year. I am running a 10D so each gig of storage gives about 150 pics. Currently have 3 cards totalling 4gig or 600 pics. Hopefully I can get some sort of ballpark since I'm buying 1, maybe 2 4gig cards or microdrives.

[Oklahoma]

At that point you might consider a dump drive to copy the memory cards to. I know admin posted the link for one up sometime back. They usually run about $180+ for at least 40 gigs and some even boast 80 or more gigs for usually not a lot more maybe a buck a gig over the $180 40gig versions. I have one from Sandisk (I think) and it is a 40gig one and costs $180. All you have to do is plug the card in and press copy, when you are done shooting you can plug it into your computer later and copy them off of it.

At 150 pictures per gig that can get you 6000+ pictures plus whatever your cards can hold.

For about the same or cheaper than some of the 4gig cards you get 40+gigs and all you have to do is take a couple of minutes to copy the card to it, but then that is why you have a second card so you can keep shooting while the other is copying.

As for actual pictures taken it depends on the person. I have seen people shoot 30 or so in a day and others shoot 2-3 thousand in a day. It really just depends on the person.

[Wolverine]

Originally Posted by Oklahoma

At that point you might consider a dump drive to copy the memory cards to. I know admin posted the link for one up sometime back.

http://www.eastgear.com/shop/product...roducts_id=444

Originally Posted by Oncoming

I shot around 900-1000 during my busiest day at Quakecon last year.

You have QuakeCon pics? Do you have a photo site? I didn't see such a URL link in your profile.

[impgard]

Have you ever considered editing out the bad shots while 'chimping' the LCD? That might save you some file space. I usually know when I don't get a shot (like when some random convention-goer steps into my shot), so deleting them on the fly might work, assuming you have good battery life.

Other than that, I'd get 8 GB Sandisk cards if you can afford them...because eventually you'll upgrade your camera to one that has higher megapixels.

[The-Real-Link]

[quote=Wolverine]http://www.eastgear.com/shop/product...roducts_id=444

I'd say as well that it really depends on how much you plan to be shooting and how many pics you think you'll be taking. I know people who only take 30 or so pics at Otakon and then others such as the great Admin / Eurobeat King / Deathcom Multimedia / Rising Sun, who generally seem to take thousands per day.

Personally if you're able to work out the shipping and money costs up front before Otakon, the Compact Drive / Hyperdrive is very nice, as I've now used mine both at Anime Central and Anime North this year. Only had one or two stalls with it (I think the batteries were dead when I used it at those times) but as long as it's charged up you should have no problems. I still rotate though my 3x 512 and single 256 MB cards but it got to a point I just knew it would be expensive to buy many more (and the risk of losing them) so I went the storage route.

Only takes a minute or two to dump a 512 card so granted you may need to wait for a short time before you can flush the card again but it beats the hike back to a hotel.

Part of the reason I got one was also forseeing the fact of getting into higher resolution cameras and so having my cards give less and less photo counts for their space, so all in all, I don't think the drive is a bad option at all ^^.

If the drive isn't something you'd want to do now, it sounds like you already have a good amount of cards, but just might want to pick up one or two more 1GBs (at your stated capacity) to be safe. I know last year I easily filled 2 of my 512's before Friday was done but when it comes to more robust cameras like yours, I guess one can always err on having too much memory.

[Oncoming]

Here's a quick link to the Quakecon shots if you wanted to view those:http://s2i.riiv.com/qc. Added my site to profile. Went and doublechecked 950 was the most shots taken at QC on Saturday.

I've read reviews on the p70x and the epson p-2000 which are pretty similar but one forum (Forget whether that was on dpreview.com or fredmiranda.com forums) said the p70x was pretty fragile. I'm not really thrilled about either option if I can reach my box but the p-2000 is on a wishlist.

I guess I'm buying 2 4gig CF's. Just a simple decision on between Lexar 133x and Sandisk Ultra 2/Extreme 3.

[Demonsun]

okay, first thing what type of files are you shooting? Just JPegs, or RAWs?
That will determine what storage load you'll need.

And for the record, when I was using an 8G card I encountered a little too much corruption from time to time for my liking, I prefer the 1 and 4 gig cards. With them I usually have about three to four 1 gigs, and I usually offload one or two of them at a time, and I usually have about 3-4 512mb cards as backups. I usually use a laptop but Epson makes a nice little viewer/storage drive, its a little slow but it works great as a highres viewer.


and you can do what journalists do every day at sporting events, go through and process and tag every image, filtering down everything to a reasonable amount. When I do high school and local college sports games, I usually shoot around 2,000-4,000 pictures, and I usually end up with between 100-400 good shots, and even less that are publishable.

Don't be afraid to ruthlessley edit.

[impgard]

I'd stay away from Lexars, especially since you are using a Canon. I only use Sandisk (Ultra IIs, not the Extreme's ) in my 1DmkII and have never had a problem. But, I have read horror stories regarding lost/corrupted files on the Lexars. A quick perusal of the Fred Miranda/DPreview/Sportsshooter.com sites will confirm this all to common problem with Lexar.

I, like Demonsun, use 1 gb cards. But, I am thinking about getting larger CF cards (4 or 8gb) when I upgrade my camera next year. Yeah and I shoot only RAW files, not JPEGs.

[Demonsun]

I haven't had a problem with lexar, although I shoot nikon. I've never had a problem whith the professional 40X cards which I use. Any probnlems might be drawn to the fact that canon does not support the Write accelerate, Which nikon and everyone else do.
I use about 4 different types of memory cards usually, preferably my 1G lexar profesional, or my san disk 1 and 2 gb extreme III, And I've never once had a problem. Only time was with a 8 GB San disk Extreme 4, which I have since returned.

And Impgard, 1GB, 2gb, and 4 gb, are the best bets when it comes to speed and reliability, whether lexar, or sandisk, etc.

And When You use the professional grade cards you usually will have better quality memory anyways. The only lexar problems I've heard about are the ones regarding the cheap ones from sams club and other discount retailers.

[impgard]

Demonsun, the lexar Pro 80X CF cards have a known bug with certain Canon cameras. Lexar issued a recall and will replace/fix cards that are sent to them. There's a bunch of posts on DPreview regarding this problem with Lexar cards. So, that being said many Canon shooters stay away from Lexar...at least for the moment.

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Found some information regarding the Lexar problem...it was a firmware issue. Here's a link to the old Rob Galbraith site that explains the issue: http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/con...id=7-6468-7841

[Demonsun]

Probaly Relates to the Write accleration, its been known to cause isssues with cameras that don't support the way it writes data. ergo the corruption. the releases and stuff from lexar and canon all point to this.

I mainly shoot nikon but I have a d20 and occaisionally use it for the 50 mm 1.2, but I've never had a problem with my 80x 512, although its brand new, so it might not have the problem.

[Demonsun]

i Just rered your original post, and I have one bit of advice, Stay away from microdrives, I lost about an hours worth of a barmitzfah becaus the 2 gig I had failed. won't touch em again except in a transfer drive


edit- Just checked out lexars site, and they are actually stopping making the 80x, cards so its a non issue

and the 133 and 40x have no problem at all with canons so far.

[Anime London]

Personally I think more the better. I stick to 512M SD cards since they fit on a CDR. I do recommend a card reader since even without a laptop, you can go to an internet cafe and transfer the lot to a portable HD. I do both CDR and HD daily since I have had a card fail on me.

If you got a laptop then portable DVD burners might be an option.
As for how many more cards, you might want to add a couple to top off your maximum number of shots. Since if you're doing near a thousand at con you regularly go to, chances are you'll find more to shoot at a new con. I know I keep pressing my storage limits because I know I can always take another because I know I won't get another chance afterward.

I took 1.2G or 715 photos and clips at Anime North. Raw uncompressed camcorder footage pushed that another 27Gig of drive space. Still don't forget to have fun as I know, you can get caught up in just taking pictures.

[Oncoming]

Demonsun - I shoot raws for everything but sports and a couple special cases.

Bought 2 Lexar 133x 4GB cards if anyone was interested in what I finally decided on buying. Thanks for the advice guys.

[Jurai]

It depends to the shooting:

When I need to use Raw files, i'll much more memory, than while making shots for my website.

During a typical convention day, I shoot about 1000 photos. Each photo is sized 2544 * 1696. For each photo I need an avarage memory of 2.2 MB. A typical convention rises up to almost 7 GB.

Greetz Jurai