How many memory cards(and how big) do you take

[Thumper_ehhhhh]

Call me paranoid lol. I did have a SD card go bad once. Cheap card. Boys and Girls always buy good cards not cheap brands lol. I now have several cards heres what I have for our family outings.
-4 cameras. ones for each family member.
-10 1 gig cards. What can i say we had a sale on brand name cards last year so I stocked up lol
-picture storage device. 40 gig transfer pictures nightly.
-** new ** now have a laptop and started transfering pictures directly to it instead of storage device.
We always unload nightly and I format the cards each time in my camera. Never had problems after that one incident.

 

[tripodjw]

I take all my memory cards on every vacation.

1x 8GB
4x 4GB
3x 2GB
2x 1GB

I also take my laptop for backing up all shots every night. Laptop is so useful when on vacation for both the backing up pics and also checking out stuff on the internet (now that most places have free internet its even better) like your driving route for the next day or opening times or zip codes for stores to enter into the GPS.

I shoot in RAW & JPEG (at highest resolution) so get about 300 pics on a 4GB card, and considering on a typical vacation (anywhere not just Disney) I'll take a minimum of 200 shots a day and its usually nearer 400.

I do not reuse a card until i have used each one and am doubly sure everything is backed up

 

[KimAshton]

Just be careful cause if you upload them and then erase them off your memory card what happens if you are on your trip and something happens to your laptop and you don't have them back up. My friend had that happen to her a few years ago and she lost all her pics.

 

[boBQuincy]

We typically go through about 2-3 GB per day. We take a mini-laptop and back up our memory cards to other memory cards. We don't erase a card until we get home and have made at least two copies.

 

[WillCAD]

Just be careful cause if you upload them and then erase them off your memory card what happens if you are on your trip and something happens to your laptop and you don't have them back up. My friend had that happen to her a few years ago and she lost all her pics.

That's why I burn a DVD of my images before I come home, in case something happens to my laptop in transit. The DVD rides home in my checked bag, while the laptop is with me in my carry-on.

Of course, stuff can still happen to the DVD in my checked bag, but the odds of something wiping out both my checked bag and my carry-on are much slimmer than something happening to just one of them.

If I have time, and an internet connection, I have also been known to upload my pics to my online account, as a second backup.

 

[loopner67]

I just got back. I took a 2 gb card that held almost 1000 pictures - my camera is 10.0 megapixels. I then had 1 GB card that I put another 250 pictures on and it still had plenty of room (for another 200+ pics).

My big thing was having that second battery with me! I edited and deleted a lot during the day (while touring the parks), so my battery would be drained each day. It was very handy to have a 2nd charged battery ready to go when/if needed.

 

[handicap18]

On our last trip I brought 6 2GB and my laptop with an external hard drive. Each night I downloaded to the external HD (160GB) via the laptop.

I filled all 6 cards and had to reformat 2 of them for a 2nd round of use. I shot in RAW and got on average of about 340 images per card. The 2 cards I had to reformat to use a 2nd time I downloaded the images to the laptops HD and the external HD.

 

[handicap18]

I just got back. I took a 2 gb card that held almost 1000 pictures - my camera is 10.0 megapixels. I then had 1 GB card that I put another 250 pictures on and it still had plenty of room (for another 200+ pics).

My big thing was having that second battery with me! I edited and deleted a lot during the day (while touring the parks), so my battery would be drained each day. It was very handy to have a 2nd charged battery ready to go when/if needed.

What setting were you using? My current camera is 12.3MP and on a 4GB card I get about 700 JPEG images on the highest JPEG setting.

I actually only get about 275 though because I shoot in RAW.

 

[brack]

I take them all! While I haven't added them all up there is more than 10GB. My plan is to buy more.

When I get home I download them to at least three hard drives and on DVD (my old ones are on a bunch of CD's but I'll transfer those to DVD soon)

 

[Thumper_ehhhhh]

Just be careful cause if you upload them and then erase them off your memory card what happens if you are on your trip and something happens to your laptop and you don't have them back up. My friend had that happen to her a few years ago and she lost all her pics.

OK OK ya got me I upload to both my laptop and portable storage device lol. Yeah as I said call me paranoid.

 

[Chikabowa]

Take what I say with a grain of salt... I'm a freak! LOL!
I am taking 40GB of memory spread out over 10 different cards, each varying in size from 1GB all the way up to 8GB. I'm also taking my laptop because I can't be away from the computer/business/work/internet for 12 days straight. I think my entire life would fall apart.

I told you I am a freak.

 

[Experiment_626]

I guess I'm in the minority because I take only eight gigabytes of memory cards with me anywhere and everywhere I go. I have two 2GB cards and one 4GB. One is 120X and the other two are 133x. I can get away with this only because I take an iPod to which I download my photos at the end of every day. Sure, there are better purpose-built devices for photo storage, but the advantage of using the iPod is that I already have it.

SSB

 

[My2Girls66]

When we went in Feb for 5 days I took all my memory cards to be safe- I had 3- 2gb and a bunch of 1gb. I ended up filling 2-2GB cards and most of a 1GB card with my D50 and took some more pictures on a Canon A560, not even 1Gb worth.