hi guys, well we did our first wedding with a dslr camera and im amazed at the results, its not edited yet but looks pretty impressive from what ive seen.
im just wondering do you buy new cards for each wedding or do you just back up to hd, and also what make of card do you use/recomend
will get my latest hi lites on soon :)
We use CF cards and there is no way I'm buying £660 worth of cards for each gig.
*We get home, we capture the data to our network device which has RAID5. So its semi safe.
*Then it backs up to an external drive.
*I check that the files all copied fine. At this point the cards can be wiped for the next gig.
*An offsite backup is performed.
As for which ones to recommend. Just ones which meet the speed requirements set by your DSLR maker and are a named brand. For our SD devices we use Kingston cards. For our DSLR's we also use Kingston cards, the Elite Pro ones. Never a single problem.
You also need to buy ones which fit within your budget.
im looking at 32gb cards, the one my dslr camera guy used was a "storage options" card
but reading on amazon, and i see cards with great reviews and then 1 bad review just scares the hell out of me, with stuff like"lost all the images and footage when tried to transfer data"
i know ill probably be fine but im looking for the most reliable card. is there a difference with cf and sd
Don't know much about the DSLR setup but if it is of any help I use SDHC 32GB & 16GB Trancsend class 10 for my EX3. Just copied 3 32Gb, as I need them for a wedding this Saturday, to an external HD for archiving and relative safety. Like Mintyslippers don't fancy paying £'s for new cards for every function.
Check this post out.
http://forums.dvdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=51797
Harry
im looking at 32gb cards, the one my dslr camera guy used was a "storage options" card
but reading on amazon, and i see cards with great reviews and then 1 bad review just scares the hell out of me, with stuff like"lost all the images and footage when tried to transfer data"
i know ill probably be fine but im looking for the most reliable card. is there a difference with cf and sd
I think you are always going to find negative reports of one card or another. I mentioned on one US forum that I had used Transcend cards without a hitch for over a year in my EX1, HM100 and 550D. Then one chap came in with a post that he had heard bad things about Transcend, and a holy panic set in. My advice has always been, find a card that you find reliable, and stick with it. Any card can fail, and probably will one day. I tend not to go with the "this is the only card you should use brigade". The main reason I started to use Transcend cards was, they were by far the most reliable cards used in the EX1 in the early days of card adaptors. They have served me well, so why change. You may well find another brand that you are happier with, if so, and you have established that it can be used reliably, and you are confident using it, thats the one for you.
BTW. I would stick to using 16gb cards, if one does go down, you will not lose so much footage. All your eggs in one basket etc, etc
Cant say ive heared of storage options as a brand name. The issue with cheaper cards or even ebay knockoffs is the real deal has a rated speed but the card actually can perform beyond that speed. The cheaper ones either perform at the rated speed or below. You always need a bit of wriggle room.
Stick to names like Sandisk, Kingston or Trancend. There will always be one person with a bad review as colin says and bad cards do slip out but go with the majority.
Also consider using smaller cards and changing after each key part of the day. We take 12 32GB cards along but only fill each one up a tiny ammount. We use a card for the prep, pre-ceremony, ceremony, cocktail hour, speeches, evening. The reason being if the card ever should fail, get lost, catch fire while sitting on a table or get stolen by a squirrel we only loose whats on that card. The chances are you will never have any of that happen in all the years you film but its a risk. Ive known togs who shoot using 1GB cards and take 10 of them to a shoot. Cards do fail, its rare but they do and the moment it does your heart will die.
Luckily we only had a scare, me thinking a card was blank but it was just in a different folder. But its enough to get you thinking "What if".
......or get stolen by a squirrel......
Damn those thieving squirrels!
I use SDHC 32GB & 16GB Trancsend class 6 and same for the CF cards, the 133x ones
THe CF cards give a problem on macs, don't put them in the trash when trying to eject them or it will render them unusable.(they can be fix but it doesnt always work, pm me if anyone needs help)
Besides that problem I recommend them based on price and reliability. I have a couple of 16gb but mostly 32gbs
Just a quick note to say that the Kingston 32GB looks like it's been discontinued, so you may have to look elsewhere for one of those. However, you can get the 16GB Kingston elite pros for around £15 on amazon at the mo.