Portable Drives ? and size of CF ?

[cindyj]

A question for the pros, do you bring a portable drive/viewer to back up your cards and see what you have shot? Any good brands you can recommend?, Anyone have the Sanho Hyperdrive? Also, what size cards do you shoot 2, 4,8 GB? And how many total? (gigs or cards) I dont want all my eggs in one basket, so will probably stick with 2 GB...but just curious what the rest of you do!
Thanks!

[cindyj]

Anyone?

[mckc]

1. Yes I do bring a Western Digital 250GB HD with me on weddings. If it is local I usually don't worry about backing them up, but when I travel, I def. back up before I get back on the plane.

2. I personally shoot with four 4GB cards and one 2GB card. 2GB is too small for me...I don't want to have to keep changing cards out, but 8 is too big for me. I don't like the idea of that many images being on one card.

I am not sure if this is the best way to do things...this is just the way I do it.

[SYS]

I opted not to go with the self-powered portable HD but USB HD because of more storage power I get for the money, and the fact that I don't need to review photos as I shoot. For my trip at the end of this month to South Korea, I'm taking my 12" laptop, 320gb WD Passport Essential, two 4gb Kingston Elite CF, two 2gb SD CF, and one 1gb Kingston Elite CF. My laptop and the Passport stays at the base of my trip while I'm out shooting. I do all the dumping and reviewing of the photos in the evening before going to sleep.

[highway0691]

This gets discussed fairly often here. My philosophy on this is the less you fiddle with changing cards and lenses the better-that's when problems start (or have done for me.) I had a card fail (but retrieved all photos later) and I'm almost sure it was due to my fiddling/impatience/rushing with all the changing lenses and cards etc. Downloading photos during a wedding to me would be only adding to the clutter and limited headspace I have for anything else other than the event - I would freak-out to find that a card had failed half-way through. Would you tell the B&G? and then try to re-shoot whatever you missed? This could really upset them.To carry on shooting without knowing what caused would be a extremely difficult. I'd much rather find out after all had been done. I have confidence in genuine sandisk cards and also have confidence in good data recovery companies. This is my take - we all have our systems I suppose.

regards

Damian

[figmented]

I shoot with 16gb cards, I should with a 5d so can only get 1000 pics per card. I also have a 250gb hyperdrive that works wonders, and I backup to it and leave it there for a while until im usually done with a few weddings just incase.