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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI bought a 4GB Lexar CF card this week which allows me to take approximately 250 photos if I choose RAW+JPEG at the highest quality (I was right, sRAW is only 2.5 MP which is crap; why even bother? I think it should have been at least 5 MB since the full size is 10 MB). <\/p>\n
After comparing the quality between the two types last night, I’ve decided to stick with RAW exclusively since the JPEGs are complete crap in comparison. Plus I can get more photos on a card. I can easily convert a batch of RAW photos to JPEG for posting reasons, plus retain the EXIF info for Flickr. How sweet is that? <\/p>\n
Along with my 2 GB card I can now take somewhere around 450 photos before I run out of space. Much better than 150 photos with just the 2 GB card. I was deleting photos in the field (when we were shooting the hot air balloons) just to make room for more and that sucks since you can’t really gleam which ones are good until you’re in front of a computer. I tried transferring the photos to my old Image Tank but I don’t trust it. It was plugged into the cigarette lighter and transferring when it abruptly shut off. I don’t think I’m going to be using it for much more than a paperweight now that I’m leery of it’s reliability. <\/p>\n
I also bought a 500 GB Western Digital external hard drive<\/a> to back up all my photos. It’s so quick that I backed up 10 GB in less than twenty minutes. I may or may not back up my MP3s to it as well. I have most of those burned to DVDs, though. I’ve been a little lazier with the photos. I still need to determine what I was able to recover from the hard drive failure. If you recall, I just starting burning data to DVD as quickly as possible before it disappeared. <\/p>\n Right now we have 6 internal hard drives laying around with god knows what on them. Not even sure which of those drives are not corrupted. One of these days I need to make it a project to check the data on each one, backup what is needed, then destroy them. Want to wager a guess when I’ll get around to that daunting task?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I bought a 4GB Lexar CF card this week which allows me to take approximately 250 photos if I choose RAW+JPEG at the highest quality (I was right, sRAW is only 2.5 MP which is crap; why even bother? I think it should have been at least 5 MB since the full size is 10 MB). After comparing the quality between the two types last night, I’ve decided to stick with RAW exclusively since the JPEGs are complete crap in comparison. Plus I can get more photos on a card. I can easily convert a batch of RAW photos to JPEG for posting reasons, plus retain the EXIF info for Flickr. How sweet is that? Along with my 2 GB card I can now take somewhere around 450 photos before I run out of space. Much better than 150 photos with just the 2 GB card. I was deleting photos Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}