Get the right size digital memory

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You don't need to rebut, and you are welcome to keep using cheap 1 gig cards to feed your cameras for all time, as far as I am concerned. How many RAW shots do you get with a 1 gig card on a 10 MP digital camera like Canon 40D? How much card swapping do you have to do in a busy day of shooting? How do you store full cards after you swap them? If you really own a photo lab, and really see multiple zapped CF cards every week, you support my perspective, even though you are not wiling to think it through. Recent generation, large capacity cards have a far longer mean time between random failure than older, smaller cards. That is simply a function of the advance in technology (paralleled by the hard drive, and CPU industries), and is not subject to serious debate. It is what it is, and it is a super fine record of longevity that has been built by high capacity cards. The fact that you claim to see so many zapped CF cards each week (I doubt it, but you claim it to be true) also supports my contention that if you have a highly reliable large capacity card, and don't mess with it, you will likely never have problems with the card over a lifetime of heavy use. When you pop CF cards in and out of the camera slot every time you transfer images, or every 80 shots or so that it takes to fill up a small card, you beg for trouble in the form of worn contacts, and zapped cards. You would be better off offering your customers sound advice, rather than steering them along the flawed path of understanding that you have adopted as flash card religion. Tell your customers to leave their cards in their cameras, transfer images via USB, and deliver images for you to print on CD ROM disks, or DVD disks. The reports of "zapped" cards that you see, or hear about will pretty much go away, as your old advice was driving the problem, and not helping to prevent it. Good luck, and I hope that your retail printing abilities exceed your your understanding of silicon technology, and it's various modes of failure. By the way, do you know why the Boeing 777 only has two engines, yet is rated for trans-oceanic flight, while common wisdom, and regulation declared that four engines were better at the time it was built? It has to do with the same myth that proclaims that many small CF cards are better than one ultra reliable card that is most often left alone in the camera slot.