On Sale at Adorama .. 64Gb SD Cards - Class 10, 200x .. $12 Free Ship

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steve149

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At Adorama .. Lexar Platinum II 64Gb SD (SDXC) cards for $11.95 with free shipping. These are pretty fast (Class 10, 200x). I bought 2.

Lexar Platinum II 200X SD Card

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This is sorely tempting me. We use fresh cards on every gig and do not re-format. Once a job is over, we archive the cards, as an extra level of backup. I've been using 16gb, 330X cards, which also run $10-$12. Part of the reason I use smaller cards is so we don't have an entire shooter's project on a single point of failure. But there's part of me that thinks the risk of losing a card is probably more than risk of card failure. If we did these, the 200x would occasionally slow down shooting, but it would only take 1 card per camera body (we use 3). We'd be cutting our card usage and cost in half.

Any thoughts?
 
Well .. these are sold out now anyway.

I use 400x compact flash in my 5d and 7ds (both have SD card as a 2nd card). I have used 100x SD cards as well .. only time it's an issue is for sports when I'm firing off long strings, since the 7dII will do 10 fps.

Usually, if I'm paranoid about losing something, I'll set the 5d or 7d on dual write and write to the CF and SD simultaneously .. not sure if the 6d has that. It also jumps to the 2nd card once the first fills up if not in dual write mode.

You take things much farther than I ever had .. I typically will reuse a SD card once I've released the photos.
 
Well .. these are sold out now anyway.

I use 400x compact flash in my 5d and 7ds (both have SD card as a 2nd card). I have used 100x SD cards as well .. only time it's an issue is for sports when I'm firing off long strings, since the 7dII will do 10 fps.

Usually, if I'm paranoid about losing something, I'll set the 5d or 7d on dual write and write to the CF and SD simultaneously .. not sure if the 6d has that. It also jumps to the 2nd card once the first fills up if not in dual write mode.

You take things much farther than I ever had .. I typically will reuse a SD card once I've released the photos.

The 6d is a single SD card. It doesn't have dual media, like the 5d. With the numbers of shots we're doing, not sure I'd want to do that anyways. We usually use 2 cards per camera body.
 
The 6d is a single SD card. It doesn't have dual media, like the 5d. With the numbers of shots we're doing, not sure I'd want to do that anyways. We usually use 2 cards per camera body.
You also shoot raw, which chews up more than the JPEG I shoot.
 
RAW has the most information available and the widest dynamic range of any of the formats. I don't know of any pro-level photographers who don't use RAW for their work. JPG images are much less info, less space, and they and plenty sufficient for most any hobbyist's needs. Frankly, we're struggling to try and catch up to the "standard", so we need all the help we can possibly get. As for shooting, we actually show M-RAW and L-Jpg. I know we're wasting space on each card but I figured if a card's filesystem gets blown out, I'm leaving a chance I could recover the jpg files. I heard too many stories of cards crapping out or photographers losing them. I'm trying my very best to make sure we don't have any of those stories to tell. I know it may seem wasteful to buy new cards for every project but we're charging good $$$ for our service. I see it as a simply COGS issue.
 
I shoot L-JPEG .. only because I need to process so many shots .. and I'm not getting paid for it. A track meet 3 weeks ago I shot 2400 images and need to process it down to 200-300. Picasa lets me go through lots of images quickly, but doesn't handle raw well. SO JPEG until I spend time with Lightroom to learn it properly.

I've been lucky then .. never had any issue with a card and I've shot close to 200K images (125K on my original 7d alone).
 
I shoot L-JPEG .. only because I need to process so many shots .. and I'm not getting paid for it. A track meet 3 weeks ago I shot 2400 images and need to process it down to 200-300. Picasa lets me go through lots of images quickly, but doesn't handle raw well. SO JPEG until I spend time with Lightroom to learn it properly.

I've been lucky then .. never had any issue with a card and I've shot close to 200K images (125K on my original 7d alone).

Picasa is a great tool when it comes to fast processing. Nothing can beat it, in my view. Lightroom gives a level of edit tools that typically would not be needed by the casual photographer. Photoshop is needed only when Lightroom's capabilities have been exceeded. I've noticed that wifey needs PS for maybe 15% of her photos that have been chosen for editing.
 
I'd like to learn it to apply some standardized color correction, white balance, etc. to a group of shots. Also it has lens correction and far better sharpness and highlighting/fill control. I played with mine a bit, but I couldn't get the process down well enough. I was using LR3 .. I picked up LR 5 .. now it seems they want you to move to the Adobe CC platform for $100+ a year.
 
I'd like to learn it to apply some standardized color correction, white balance, etc. to a group of shots. Also it has lens correction and far better sharpness and highlighting/fill control. I played with mine a bit, but I couldn't get the process down well enough. I was using LR3 .. I picked up LR 5 .. now it seems they want you to move to the Adobe CC platform for $100+ a year.

To me, the problem I had wrapping my head around lightroom was catalogs. I kept trying to add shots to the existing catalog. I finally figured out to create an "original" folder to hold the RAWS and I'd name it;

"2016-06-11 (Matt & Deb) Smith's Venue Nashville TN"

then copy all the raws there. I then create a fresh catalog in LR and import all the RAWs from the project to it. We then scroll thru each shot and tag the ones we want to include for editing as a "1". After this is done, you set the filter to only display shots set as 1. We then start edits and when we finish the edit on a shot we re-tag it; 3 for "Getting Ready", 4 for "Ceremony" or 5 for "Reception". I have a "PhotoFinals" folder where I then create another folder named as above, then put sub-folders under it to hold each category's final jpg copies. When we create the online galleries we create a gallery group, then under it we put each of the category types listed above. End result we usually end up with 150(ish) shots in each folder. If we do a photobooth we also create a sub-folder for that and copy those shots there. On Photobooth, I'll often create its own catalog, import the JPGs the mass-edit and apply a brightening/punch filter.

If you get your head wrapped around how LR does things and get your workflow going, you can really get a lot of editing done in a short period of time. We've already cut our total editing time in half and likely will halve it again.
 
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Maybe I'll upgrade to LR6 this summer and give it another whirl. Most of my shooting is outdoors, so raw would have less of a benefit, but having just shot an 8th Grade Dinner Dance last night .. I can see where the benefit would be in the low light shots.
 
I use Zoner for importing/cataloging/editing. IMHO, a great program for those who don't want to get on the Adobe bandwagon, but it still can run most Photoshop plugins.

However, for those really special edits of RAW's, I'll still use DPP to adjust my CR2's, and then export to Photoshop. Only problem is the new DPP V4 is slower than dirt on PC's.
 
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