When you memory chip is full in the park?

[poochie]

Is there somewhere you can load onto a cd or even a website so you can continue to take pictures on vacation?:confused:

[SrisonS]

Not sure, but I'd suggest just buying another memory card or two. Or in desparate matters, delete pics that didn't come out good; or ones you know you could live without.

[J3nn78]

Memory is "stupid cheap" now. I just bought (2) 8gb SD cards from B&H Photo

(16gigs total is over 1000 RAW files on my D90 DSLR)

Lexar LEPSD28GB 8GB Platinum II 60x Secure Digital (SDHC) Card
2 $15.80 $31.60
Sub Total: $31.60
Shipping: $4.95
Sales Tax: $0.00
Total: $36.55

[ukcatfan]

I agree on buying more, but yes you can have them loaded to CD at the camera centers of each park. The problem is that one CD costs more than the memory card you could have bought before your trip. Also, I believe they put some ridiculous limit to the number of photos you can put on a CD. I believe it is only 100 per CD. So, to clear something like 200 pics from your card, you could buy lunch for your entire family (even at WDW food prices).

[poochie]

Well that answers that. I have $40.00 in Best buy dollars which I will use for additional memory card. :idea:

Thank you

[MICKEY88]

Not sure, but I'd suggest just buying another memory card or two. Or in desparate matters, delete pics that didn't come out good; or ones you know you could live without.


I always advise against deleting pics in camera, I've read numerous reports that claim doing so can lead to a corrupt card, or loss of pictures..

i don't know how true that is, but why take chances

[AndrewWG]

I always advise against deleting pics in camera, I've read numerous reports that claim doing so can lead to a corrupt card, or loss of pictures..

i don't know how true that is, but why take chances

I do this ALL the time and have never had a problem but have heard the same warnings and choose not to listen to them. Just saying that I have never had a problem with it.

[MICKEY88]

I do this ALL the time and have never had a problem but have heard the same warnings and choose not to listen to them. Just saying that I have never had a problem with it.

I stumbled upon this the first time after losing pics on a card and searching for answers...
after it happened with my 2nd or 3rd card I decided to follow the advice, and haven't lost any pics since..

coincidental. ??.perhaps

[handicap18]

Well that answers that. I have $40.00 in Best buy dollars which I will use for additional memory card. :idea:

Thank you

Best Buy has the SanDisk 8GB SDHC card on sale for $24.99 (+tax). Same card at buy.com is $19.95 with free shipping.

Just sayin.

[SrisonS]

I do this ALL the time and have never had a problem but have heard the same warnings and choose not to listen to them. Just saying that I have never had a problem with it.

I constantly do the same thing. If I don't like something right after I take it, I'll delete it. Or if I'm just sitting around, I'll flip through my pics and get rid of the bad ones. And if it's happened to you 2 or 3 times, you think it might actually be something wrong with your camera????? If anything, maybe the occasional Low Level Format might help.

[Golf4food]

My problem with deleting in camera after the fact is that the camera then fills in the empty spaces on the card and then your shots are out of order! :)

For the OP: I'm also of the school that you are better off with multiple smaller cards than fewer giant cards. We had a 2 GB card die while in WDW two years ago and lost everything on that card. Luckily it was only a few hundred shots instead of losing one of the 4 GB cards. I only buy 4 GB and smaller because of that very reason. Much better to lose some than to lose all.

So if you do use that Best Buy gift card for more cards, think about getting two or three smaller GB sizes instead of one big 8 GB, etc.

[MarkBarbieri]

I always advise against deleting pics in camera, I've read numerous reports that claim doing so can lead to a corrupt card, or loss of pictures..

i don't know how true that is, but why take chances

Sounds like a camera problem. I've deleted lots of photos in the field and never had a single problem.

My problem with deleting in camera after the fact is that the camera then fills in the empty spaces on the card and then your shots are out of order! :)


Huh? I've never seen that happen.

[MarkBarbieri]

For the OP: I'm also of the school that you are better off with multiple smaller cards than fewer giant cards. We had a 2 GB card die while in WDW two years ago and lost everything on that card. Luckily it was only a few hundred shots instead of losing one of the 4 GB cards. I only buy 4 GB and smaller because of that very reason. Much better to lose some than to lose all.

I'm of the opposite school. To me, one card kept safely in the camera is more secure than keeping track of many cards. I've sent cards through the washer (one died, one was fine) because I stuck them in my pocket during a change. I've dropped cards. I've had a hard time remembering which cards are used and which aren't. For me, it's safest having everything one one card.

My old camera was great because it allowed you to write to two cards at once. Then, if one card had a problem, you were still OK.

One thing that I always do is backup and reformat my cards every night. I dump the photos to a pair of mini-hard drives. Then I put the card back in the camera and format it.

Before I step out of the house/hotel to go on a shoot, I fire off one quick shot. That confirms that I have a card, that my battery works, etc. It's much easier to correct mistakes like that at home than on location.

[funkychunkymonkey]

I constantly do the same thing. If I don't like something right after I take it, I'll delete it. Or if I'm just sitting around, I'll flip through my pics and get rid of the bad ones. .
I do this too. I delete alot right off the camera (and I get rid of the kids shots)

[J3nn78]

Agree'd with Mark: I'm far more worried that I'm going to mess up a memory card than I am of the camera or card messing it's self up.

Last year I show weddings with 10 2gb cards. This year Im using 3 8gb cards. I got sick of running out of a 2gb card at an inconvienent moment, carrying around lots of extra cards. I also had a guest step on a card that I had dropped while fumbling around trying to change cards quickly. also had one go through the wash & dryer, thankfully with only personal pictures on it (and it was fine anyway).

[MICKEY88]

I constantly do the same thing. If I don't like something right after I take it, I'll delete it. Or if I'm just sitting around, I'll flip through my pics and get rid of the bad ones. And if it's happened to you 2 or 3 times, you think it might actually be something wrong with your camera????? If anything, maybe the occasional Low Level Format might help.

it actualy happened with different cameras, I always format my cards in camera after uploading my pics to my pc..

[seashoreCM]

On a recent trip I just brought enough memory cards so I never needed to burn CD's and re-use cards.

Caution: If your camera accepts a maximum of so many gigibytes on a memory card, do not insert a bigger card for the purpose of shooting more than the rated number of pictures wirh. Otherwise unpredictable things could happen such as the third gigabyte's worth pictures writing over the first, the fourth overwriting the second (camera max 2GB in this example).

Digital camera hints: http://www.cockam.com/digicam.htm

If you have a Flip video camera, you must bring a computer or laptop to offload it if it fills up and you want to take more video. Almost no camera shop can burn a DVD off of the Flip for you and the memory card inside is not exchangeable.

[VVFF]

I use to use a Canon S3 IS and on a one day trip on short notice I ran out of room on the memory card I brought using RAW files via CHDK. I walked into the Epcot camera store and bought a Kodak SD card to finish off the day. It was hard to swallow the increase in price vs. what I could get online but it was the only way to keep taking my pictures. I was afraid that the Camera stores offer to copy the pictures to CD wouldn't work because I was writing DNG files. Not sure if they know what to do with those...anyone have any experience out of curiosity?

[My2Girls66]

I ordered 2 4GB Kingston cards for $19.59 from buy.com earlier today.
Just noticed they have a Kingston 8GB for $18.59:( Oh well.
Both free shipping. Good company to deal with.

[GrillMouster]

Regarding deleting photos in-camera, all the pros I know do it, and I've never personally known anyone that has had a problem as a result of doing so. I think this idea that you shouldn't delete in-camera started as a unfounded theory by someone struggling to rationalize a memory card failure. It happens sometimes. I won't go out of my way to go through all my photos looking for ones to delete, but if I come across an obviously bad image I go ahead and delete it in-camera. In addition to freeing up space on the card, it frees up space on my hard drive, and it results in fewer image I go though when editing selections in post.

[disneyboy2003]

The problem is that one CD costs more than the memory card you could have bought before your trip.... So, to clear something like 200 pics from your card, you could buy lunch for your entire family (even at WDW food prices).

This made me smile. Very nicely put. :thumbsup2

This issue comes up every so often, not just on this message board, but on other photography message boards as well. Oftentimes, people are very resistant to the idea of buying an extra memory card. And sometimes they'll even say that they specifically don't want to buy an extra memory card (as if carrying an extra chewing-gum-sized card would be such a hassle!).

While burning photos onto a CD at a photo center sounds like a great idea, I like that you actually compared the prices of an extra memory card vs. burning a CD at the Disney parks. :)

[GrillMouster]

...sometimes they'll even say that they specifically don't want to buy an extra memory card (as if carrying an extra chewing-gum-sized card would be such a hassle!).

Yeah, I don't get that. If price is a non-issue (because it's the same price or even cheaper to buy extra memory), then wouldn't it be EASIER to carry around an extra card in your pocket rather than several large CDs of transferred images?

[Gianna'sPapa]

I bring a small laptop with two portable external hard drives. I download the photos each day to each of the hard drives for back up. Then I format the sdhc cards for a clean start each day. We have two (mine and my DW's) DSLR's and each have two batteries and two 8gb cards. We've never had a problem with this system. We average about 3000 images per WDW trip. When we get home I go through and delete the ones we don't want and my DW will pp the ones we print. Its a team effort and works well for us.

[Groucho]

I bring a small laptop with two portable external hard drives. I download the photos each day to each of the hard drives for back up. Then I format the sdhc cards for a clean start each day. We have two (mine and my DW's) DSLR's and each have two batteries and two 8gb cards. We've never had a problem with this system. We average about 3000 images per WDW trip. When we get home I go through and delete the ones we don't want and my DW will pp the ones we print. Its a team effort and works well for us.
That's a good plan, redundancy is key. My plan for my upcoming trip (now that I've installed a much larger hard drive in my wife's laptop - I ran out of room last trip!) is download the pics nightly and burn DVDs of the day's pics. Last trip, I was burning a pair of DVDs then having to delete them from the hard drive to free up space for the next day's pictures!

The more places the pictures exist, the safer they are!
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Deleting pictures in the middle certainly shouldn't make a difference. Your memory card functions like a small hard drive. If it's 2gb or less, it's formatted in FAT format, and if it's larger than 2gb, it's formatted in FAT32. FAT is the same file system used by DOS and Windows 3.x, FAT32 is the same used by Windows 95/98/ME. There's absolutely nothing magical about the way the files are treated on there. As long as you're not removing the card while it's being written to and the camera's software doesn't have file system bugs, you can delete to your heart's content with no fear of losing data. Since the data is stored randomly across the actual memory inside, it's not even like you're putting a hole in the middle of your data that gets filled in later.
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Costwise, I think it's $13 for Disney to burn a CD for you. That means that, even if there were no limits on how many pics they'd put on a CD for you, you'd be looking at $39 to empty a mere 2gb card! In other words, it's waaaay cheaper just to bring more memory than you can imagine ever needing. Plus - who wants to spend their vacation sitting around waiting for CDs to get burnt?

[ford91exploder]

If your camera takes SD cards just buy another at the park - somewhat expensive but better than deleting pictures.

I always bring laptop to Disney (need to for work related emergencies) so I can transfer photos to disk and CD when I get back from park.

[boBQuincy]

We usually carry plenty of SD cards, far more than we could fill on a trip. As others have noted, this is one of the most cost (and time) effective storage media. We also carry a netbook and external hard drive to backup the SD cards but leave the photos on the SD cards. They are probably the most reliable storage and are small enough they can be kept with us at all times, something most other storage media can not offer.

I do not bother to delete images in the field anymore since there is no need to but I have done it plenty before with no problems.