
However, if you’re disorganized and have a tendency to lose things, it may be difficult for you to handle yourself with more than one card. If you have several smaller cards, you might avoid losing all the shots you’ve taken since your photos will be spread across several cards. Losing a card or having a card get corrupted can hurt. Do you get a few smaller capacity cards or one large capacity card? Most articles I have read recommend that you get several smaller capacity cards. This is the first question to ask yourself. So many! More than you had imagined there would be! Am I wrong? Well luckily you’re watching this video where I will help you be an expert or expert on the subject for the next time you go to a new card.Ī large volume or multiple smaller capacity?

You assumed you’d stand at the counter (or in front of your computer) ready to make an easy and quick purchase.īut then, you’re about to choose your new memory card and you realize, too late, that there are many different kinds and types of memory cards. You never thought that there might be too many options for you to easily decide upon, you just thought maybe there were different storage capacities. One of the down sides of shooting RAW is that you must use either more or larger capacity memory cards than you do with JPEG.Īrmed with this new knowledge, you head down to the local big box store in search of a new memory card or two. Or if you have “grown up” and have begun to shoot in RAW format you’ve noticed that the RAW files occupy three times as much space as the JPEG’s did. Maybe you have a trip coming up and will remember the this list of photography essentials from a blog you’ve read. Anyone who claims this as their truth is not knowledgeable about how the compression in RAW and JPEG’s work and has not considered all the situations where JPEG file format is simply a better choice than RAW.
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But to automatically consider JPEG files unsuitable for professional work across the board is simply wrong. Each format has advantages and disadvantages. JPEG is different from RAW, that’s for sure. So much so that it has been adopted as gospel by both photographers and editors alike. It’s one of the great myths of digital photography that JPEG images are so inferior to RAW as to make them unsuitable for professional work.

Many, actually most professional photographers will claim that you can’t be a real photographer if you shoot JPEG. One of the items on that list will always be something like “extra memory cards.”Īs an aside, but also related to this subject, you will also come across articles which direct you to “grow up” and shoot RAW format.

If you’re a regular reader of photography blogs most of them will have some kind of list of essential items you need to keep in your camera bag. When looking for cheap offers I also recommend Shoppok classifieds. When we’re done, I’ll offer some recommendations on cards I use everyday. So, you didn’t ask for this, but I’m going to tell you everything I know about choosing your next memory card.
