Now you can lose even more pictures and video when your SD goes bad. Woohoo!
There are a lot of photographers who won't use SDs larger than 8GB for just that reason--lose one, you don't lose everything.
There are a lot of photographers who won't use SDs larger than 8GB for just that reason--lose one, you don't lose everything.
It used to be "won't use larger than 2GB". Right now it's around 8, but will likely become 16 in a couple of years.
As for video, it's also common to stream to an external recorder from the DSLR etc.
Are they, though? Because I use SD cards for photography and have for quite a few years and I take them not only to yards and beaches, but mountain peaks, spelunking in mud caves out in the desert, etc, and I have never had an SD card break on me either physically or in terms of data loss.
To be fair, though, for photos only (no video) even with high-res uncompressed RAW photos I can't imagine anyone practically needing SD cards anywhere near the 512 GB size. That's a lot of photos...
YMMV, I guess, maybe I'm totally lucky, but I have yet to personally have an incident which makes me worry about the robustness of decent quality SD cards.
http://www.amazon.com/EZOPower-Portable-Wireless-External-Sm...
I mean it does cost $35, but it's pretty much exactly a magic remote backup machine (that can also charge your gear!). Or you can spend more cash and get one with an integrated hard drive and need no other devices.