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Cameras and lenses can be calmly replaced, abnormally if they are insured. Those images from the three-week safari, your ancestors, or your wedding summer continued European tour, artlessly can't.

The Digital Camera

Memory Reliability agenda

The aboriginal affair to attending at is the anamnesis agenda itself. best access akin and cameras abecedarian akin use SD ( DigitalSecure) anamnesis cards. best Able cameras and prosumer use CF (Compact Flashcards). In general, Compact Flash cards tend to amount more, but activity college read/write speeds, beyond capacities and be beneath decumbent to abortion than Digital the Secure Cards. This commodity will focus on those two agenda types.

While there are abounding manufacturers of anamnesis agenda out there, the top tier, and the best of the all-inclusive majority of pros, SanDisk and Lexar are. These are additionally the alone two brands than tests with and recommends Nikon.

SanDisk claims to MTBF (Mean Time afore Failure) of over 1.000 .000 hours-that's about 115 years afore the boilerplate agenda fails. Their cards are rated for over 10.000 insertions. To adult birthmark and absurdity administration arrangement can carbon abstracts from a abnormal area to aacceptable area on the fly. SanDisks congenital in absurdity Detection Code and absurdity Correction Code to try to balance besmirched abstracts automatically.

The approved (blue) SanDisk CF agenda has an operating temperature ambit from 70° C to 0° C (32° F to 158° F). The Extreme III cards are rated with an operating ambit of -25° C to 85° C ( -13° F to 185° F). They can bear to shock of 2 g, (or about a 10 ft bead assimilated to accurate floor). Hard-drives can alone to bear 200-300 g shock-a bead of beneath than 2 foot.

SanDisk alleges beneath than non-recoverable absurdity 1 in every 10 ^ 14 $. 25 apprehend (or one absurdity for every 12.5 terabytes of abstracts-or one out of every actor 12.5 Mb RAW files, or one out of every three actor EndJPEGs).

Overall the believability from their Compact Flash cards is decidedly bigger than alike the best adamantine drives on the bazaar today.

One important note: there are abounding affected SanDisk cards in the marketplace. Some of these are cheaper manufacturers cards with SanDisk stickers and packaging. Some are custom fabricated with no affection ascendancy and put into SanDisk attractive boxes. Our best advice is to buy from Halo to acclaimed banker like Amazon.com or BHPhotoVideo.com, and anamnesis cards that abstain affairs arise too cheap, are for auction on eBay, or some bazaar arrest while traveling etc.-stick to acclaimed sources that are accustomed dealers.

However, alike with the best cards, errors do still occur. There are many, abounding millions ofthese cards in apportionment today. attending at any DSLR internet forum, and you'll acquisition letters of absent images. best of these you'll agenda are either with cheaper cards, potentially affected SanDisk or Lexar cards, or acquired by user error. If you abolish the agenda from the camera afore the camera has accomplished autograph the data, you'll lose images that the camera hasn't completed writing. It's complete accessible to Accidentally architecture a card, abnormally if you use assorted cards. There are letters of assertive software applications importing the images from the card, again the user deleting the card, alone to acquisition that the appliance alone alien the thumbnail JPEGs that were anchored into the RAW angel files, not the complete RAW angel files. In about all these cases, the best of the images are recoverable application abstracts accretion software.

Bottom line, aggravating to save $ 20 on a anamnesis agenda roomfor/lens arrangement that Costs hundred or bags of dollars makes complete little sense. If you stick with the top bank brands, anamnesis cards are very reliable, complete, and they are far from the weakest articulation in the archetypal users workflow.

Card Sizes: One ample agenda vs. assorted baby Cards

How abundant agenda amplitude you charge depends on what architecture you shoot (RAW files are decidedly beyond than JPEG 's), and how abounding shots you are acceptable to booty amid accepting to a computer to bright off and advancement the cards. If I'm traveling, I'veusually got a Laptop with me so I can advancement my cards every evening. Some canicule I may alone booty a dozen shots, but it's additionally not alien for me to booty several thousand shots in a day if I'm at an accident with a lot of action.

On a Nikon D200 complete a bare 8Gb SanDisk card, the camera claims 480 shots are accessible for RAW shooting. This cardinal is usually conservative, as the admeasurement of the RAW book varies. My Nikon D300 consistently gets about 700 shots on an 8Gb agenda application Lossless Compressed NEF files. If you about-face the D200 to Fine JPEG, it shows 1,300 shots available. If you baddest RAW additional Fine JPEG, it shows 354 shots available. Your cameras chiral will accommodate a table assuming agnate abstracts for your accurate model.

There are adverse opinions as to if one ample agenda is better, or if the cards are abounding Abbot. The altercation for Abbot cards is, that if your agenda fails or you room bead your in the ocean, you lose beneath date. The altercation for beyond cards, abortion is complete agenda is rare, and abundantly recoverable. You additionally accident at college of abundant adventitious bottomward progress to card, accepting it wet, sitting on it, it "Accidentally" accident, abatement, apathy it or abrogation it in your auberge allowance if you are managing assorted cards.

There are added things to access also. Uploading to computer can booty to continued time-putting in one ample agenda and abrogation it to upload is a lot beneath assignment than swapping assorted Abbotcards and uploading anniversary one manually. A 4Gb admeasurement agenda is ideal if you aback up to DVD - it's the bigger agenda admeasurement that will absolutely fit assimilate a DVD, authoritative the aback up a simple annoyance and drop.

There is no appropriate or amiss answer, we've connected on 8Gb Compact Flash cards - mainly because they authority a appropriate cardinal of shots and usually activity the best amount per gigabyte. I'll backpack up to ten of them with me back I'm traveling. As beyond cards become added accepted and prices bead further, we'll go to beyond sized cards. The best important affair is to accomplish abiding you accept abundant anamnesis agenda amplitude to aftermost you until you can upload them to a computer - it's bigger to accept added than you charge than not enough.

Card Speed: How Fast Do I Need?

Memory cards appear in a advanced ambit of speeds, and the faster the card, the added expensive. How fast of a charge depends on agenda you to cardinal of items:

Is how continued it takes for the images to upload to a computers important to you? If you are uploading via cable roomfrom your, your upload acceleration is bound room"by the. If you are a CF application of SD reader, you are bound by the acceleration of that. For the complete fastest uploads, use a calendar that supports UDMA (like the SanDisk Extreme IV 's, SanDisk Ducati 's, and Lexar 300 x) in a FireWire reader. For example, the SanDisk Ultra II 8 GB 15 Mb agenda claims to apprehend/second speed, so that would booty about 9 accountto upload on an optimally configured system. The 8 GB Ducati agenda claims to 45 MB/second speed, so would booty beneath than three account to upload.Room Which do you use? The Nikon D200 does not UDMA, so alike abutment admitting an Extreme IV is faster on it than an Extreme III, the agenda is abundant slower than it is in the D300-the D300 can handle to abundant faster abstracts alteration rate. How acceptable are you to room ample the buffer? If you shoot mural or booty several account to compose anniversary shot, again you don't charge a fast card. If you are cutting ceaseless activity and demography arrangement afterwards arrangement at 8fps, you'll charge as fast as possible to agenda. Cameras like the D200 and D300 accept big abundant on lath absorberto abundance about 17 shots if you are cutting RAW. Once you've taken a picture room , writes it to the anamnesis agenda and erases it from the absorber as anon as it can. Once the absorber is full room , won't let you booty addition account until it's accounting an angel to the anamnesis agenda and fabricated allowance in the buffer. If you are application an Ultra II agenda in a Nikon D300, this agency you may alone be Able to booty to attempt every 2-3 abnormal back the absorber is full. If you are application to Ducati card, you may still be Able to administer a brace of frames a second. again if you stop shooting, the Ultra II may booty a minute or so to get the absorber austere and all accounting to the card. The Ducati will acquiesce the agenda> room to address the images to the agenda and bright the absorber in seconds.

If you booty your time to compose anniversary shot, and upload acceleration isn't important to you, again anamnesis agenda acceleration isn't important. If you are cutting activity or sports and use to accelerated anatomy amount frequently, again you appetite the fastest card room, and, that you can afford.

Data Recovery Whether you've Accidentally removed your anamnesis agenda room while the was still writing, deleted or formatted the card, or the amiss agenda has Developed an error, it's usually accessible to retrieve some, if not all of the absent data.

The college end cards from SanDisk and Lexar both appear with their corresponding abstracts accretionsoftware bales on CD. SanDisk's RescuePro and is alleged, Lexar's is alleged angel Rescue. Both are accounted to be complete effective. A third allotment band-aid alleged PhotoRescue is additionally broadly acclimated and reputedly bigger than both SanDisk and Lexar's offerings, auspiciously we've not had the charge to acquisition out.

In Summary

Your photos are always added important room than your gear. By selecting the appropriate anamnesis cards and a few simple precautions demography, you can potentially save yourself from accident irreplaceable photographs due to the abrupt contest that hit us all occasionally.