extra CF cards? or drag laptop and external along?

chartle said:
But don't most current SLR's use SDHC cards not CF?
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The 7D Mk II, 5DS, 5D Mk III, 1DX, D810 and D4s all use CF cards (some in addition to SD cards). Most CF cards have a higher top speed than most SD cards, and can handle heat buildup and dissipation better from continuous use, and a lot of legacy inertia in the pro and semi-pro market that will be there for several more years, at least.

Eventually something like XQD or CFast will replace CF, but not SD. :)
 
jec6613 said:
The 7D Mk II, 5DS, 5D Mk III, 1DX, D810 and D4s all use CF cards (some in addition to SD cards). Most CF cards have a higher top speed than most SD cards, and can handle heat buildup and dissipation better from continuous use, and a lot of legacy inertia in the pro and semi-pro market that will be there for several more years, at least.

Eventually something like XQD or CFast will replace CF, but not SD. :)
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After I posted that I went to B&H and I couldn't find one that took CF cards but I was only really checking out I guess prosumer (sp?) cameras.

But I did find this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompactFlash

As of 2014, both Canon[5][6] and Nikon[7] use CompactFlash for their flagship digital still cameras. Canon also chose CompactFlash as the recording medium for its professional high-definition tapeless video cameras.
 


chartle said:
After I posted that I went to B&H and I couldn't find one that took CF cards but I was only really checking out I guess prosumer (sp?) cameras.

But I did find this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompactFlash

As of 2014, both Canon[5][6] and Nikon[7] use CompactFlash for their flagship digital still cameras. Canon also chose CompactFlash as the recording medium for its professional high-definition tapeless video cameras.
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Yep, the OP's 7D is/was a flagship camera for Canon. :)
 
I bring my laptop with me anytime Im headed to Orlando. I get excited and like to work on some late at night or early morning and wouldn't be able to wait till I got home. Recently I bought a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and love it, Lightroom and Photoshop work amazingly well on it and although its not huge on storage space, I have my little WD passport hard drive if I go over.Works out really well
 
Hockeyman said:
I bring my laptop with me anytime Im headed to Orlando. I get excited and like to work on some late at night or early morning and wouldn't be able to wait till I got home. Recently I bought a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and love it, Lightroom and Photoshop work amazingly well on it and although its not huge on storage space, I have my little WD passport hard drive if I go over.Works out really well
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FWIW, I at least do a cursory edit of all of my photos every night, as most require little post processing, and flag the ones that will need more to look at later. Otherwise, after 1-2 weeks, the pile of photos becomes a mountain that's difficult to overcome. My last major 10 day vacation netted 6,000 images (to be fair, this was the Galapagos..)
 


jec6613 said:
FWIW, I at least do a cursory edit of all of my photos every night, as most require little post processing, and flag the ones that will need more to look at later. Otherwise, after 1-2 weeks, the pile of photos becomes a mountain that's difficult to overcome. My last major 10 day vacation netted 6,000 images (to be fair, this was the Galapagos..)
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Yeah, my trips are usually long weekend trips up to Orlando since im 2 hours south so the amount taken is nowhere near the amount you do, lol.
 
Hockeyman said:
Yeah, my trips are usually long weekend trips up to Orlando since im 2 hours south so the amount taken is nowhere near the amount you do, lol.
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LOL! On a long weekend, I don't even bring my charger! One of the benefits of a DSLR is the everlasting battery ... heck, on a long weekend, I could bring one of my film SLRs and not have too much trouble. :D
 
I take the laptop. I have 5 32 GB cards and 2 16 GB cards. I will fill 2-3 32 GB cards in one day. But I'm using a 6D, passing it to the kids from time to time (which fills a card FAST) and also shooting some video in there. When I used a 50D I would fill less than half that, not just because of the file size but I also wasn't shooting video with it either. The bottom line for me is that's way too much to upload every night to cloud storage and I'd have to buy too many cards for a two week trip.

In the end how you handle it is up to you. I can't imagine leaving my laptop behind. Others can't fathom taking one.

FWIW, I tend to use Sandisk cards pretty exclusively now. I tend to pick them up when they go on sale. But i do have some Lexar and Kingston in my stash.
 
DH takes his computer to check into work (I know he is on vacation but I am done beating that dead horse), I have a small Toshiba netbook and a lightweight small Toshiba DVD burner/player that I take. We both take a minimum of 5 32g or 64g SDHC cards in case we have cards that malfunction or other members of our party need/forget extras.

DS, DD and their families all turn in earlier than we do so we spend the late nights burning DVDs of everyone's pictures of that day. Before everyone leaves they each have their own DVDs of all pictures taken at WDW, both theirs and ours; we consider them backups in case of loss. We are leery of cloud storage as the internet speed at WDW is dicey at best for uploading pictures.
 
fairy oma said:
DH takes his computer to check into work (I know he is on vacation but I am done beating that dead horse), I have a small Toshiba netbook and a lightweight small Toshiba DVD burner/player that I take. We both take a minimum of 5 32g or 64g SDHC cards in case we have cards that malfunction or other members of our party need/forget extras.

DS, DD and their families all turn in earlier than we do so we spend the late nights burning DVDs of everyone's pictures of that day. Before everyone leaves they each have their own DVDs of all pictures taken at WDW, both theirs and ours; we consider them backups in case of loss. We are leery of cloud storage as the internet speed at WDW is dicey at best for uploading pictures.
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I used to do this for years, until the unedited albums got too big to fit on a 9 GB DL DVD - essentially once the 16 MP DSLR threshold was crossed. Nowadays, I now do 50-75 GB raw per day in photo heavy places (usually 5-10 GB/day at DL/WDW), and my last weeklong vacation had an edited album that was 100 MB over the threshold for a DL DVD. It's inexpensive, very effective, and if you've got the laptop anyway a great way to send everybody home with photos.

Along the same ilk, for an upcoming two week international trip, I'm giving out 64 GB flash drives with edited albums, then when we get back to the US the raw photos are going into OneDrive for sharing, with four 1 TB LaCie rugged HDDs being used daily for backup so every photo is always in at least two locations (copy cards to computer, edit and store one drive one, copy to drive two, format cards, when drive 1 and 2 are full, switch to 3 and 4) and then are stored on my file server which backs up to a separate cloud service.
 
jec6613 said:
I used to do this for years, until the unedited albums got too big to fit on a 9 GB DL DVD - essentially once the 16 MP DSLR threshold was crossed. Nowadays, I now do 50-75 GB raw per day in photo heavy places (usually 5-10 GB/day at DL/WDW), and my last weeklong vacation had an edited album that was 100 MB over the threshold for a DL DVD. It's inexpensive, very effective, and if you've got the laptop anyway a great way to send everybody home with photos.

Along the same ilk, for an upcoming two week international trip, I'm giving out 64 GB flash drives with edited albums, then when we get back to the US the raw photos are going into OneDrive for sharing, with four 1 TB LaCie rugged HDDs being used daily for backup so every photo is always in at least two locations (copy cards to computer, edit and store one drive one, copy to drive two, format cards, when drive 1 and 2 are full, switch to 3 and 4) and then are stored on my file server which backs up to a separate cloud service.
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The flash drive is a great idea!!! We will borrow that one!
 
jec6613 said:
Borrow, steal, whatever, they're cheap now! In quantity a USB 2.0 64 GB Lexar is $17 on Amazon, and then you don't have to bring DVDs or your DVD drive. :)
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Taking high capacity flash drives is a great alternative to one of my external hard drives, tAkes the worry of damage in transit away. And we have a cheapie laptop that my son uses for games and we could take that along for transferring pictures instead of my good one! This, and a few extra CF cards might be a good compromise.
 
Meeko5 said:
Taking high capacity flash drives is a great alternative to one of my external hard drives, tAkes the worry of damage in transit away. And we have a cheapie laptop that my son uses for games and we could take that along for transferring pictures instead of my good one! This, and a few extra CF cards might be a good compromise.
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You can also use a LaCie Rugged HDD or SSD, I've never had one die because of shock and they've been dropped down flights of stairs.

Link here: https://www.lacie.com/us/products/range.htm?id=10036

More expensive, but great if you're going to go over the 128 GB or so of reasonably priced flash drives (hence my four 1 TB minis).
 
jec6613 said:
Borrow, steal, whatever, they're cheap now! In quantity a USB 2.0 64 GB Lexar is $17 on Amazon, and then you don't have to bring DVDs or your DVD drive. :)
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I found a great prices on 128gb today and ordered one for each family.
 
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