This offer ended…
If 200GB is too much, or you don’t want to mess with the power-of-2 storage karma, the black/red 128GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I Card with Adapter (Standard Packaging, model SDSQUNC-128G-GN6MA) is on sale for $30, with a limit of ten per customer at Amazon by Amazon itself… The 200GB version continues for $200 with a limit of ten as well…
PS: if you don’t believe in putting too many digital eggs in a digital basket, the grey/red 64GB Ultra goes for $15 (limit ten per customer as well).\
UPDATE: might as well put all the microSD cards in a single post, if you prefer the Sandisk ExTrEmE microSDXC cards, the 64GB version goes for $25 (limit ten per customer), model SDSQXVF-064G-GN6MA, U3, V30, C10, this is getting ridiculous with all these numbers 🙂
“. .. if you don’t believe in putting too many digital eggs in a digital basket . . . ”
Indeed, I don’t. Once was at a photogenic outdoor location where several photo enthusiasts were taking advantage of a terrific place on a beautiful day in late spring. But one was on his way to find a beer to drink and cry into. Something had gone wrong with a 64 GB card he had accumulated months worth of exposures on, dating back more than a year. Family photos, events, scenics, candids of a since deceased relative. No, it wasn’t me. Rather, a guy I had parked next to. He was sitting in the passenger seat of his car, camera in his lap, and he looked like he’d had a heart attack. He looked that sick. I asked if he was OK. He told me all but a few exposures on his memory card were gone; he didn’t know how or why it happened. He said he meant to back it up but he kept forgetting, or when he remembered something came up that needed attention right away. I told him he might be able to recover some or most with a recovery utility. He thanked me, but said he’d tried one of those in the past on a smaller card and had no luck.
I’ve been reluctant to use high capacity cards, reminding myself about how many images do I want to gamble with at any given time. Cost was a factor at one time, too. I’ve yet to fill an 8 GB card in one trip or even season. I learned photography in the film days, with a limited budget. You made your shots count, then developed your own negatives or processed reversal film and picked the best of the best to have printed, because while film and chemicals were fairly cheap, good prints were relatively costly. Even printed at home, time and consumables added up. The frugality has stayed with me into the digital age, although I’m becoming less so.
The big cards are probably necessities for the 4K action cam crowd. Not for me. It’s not that hard to bring along an extra 4GB or 8GB card and swap it into the camera if needed. And when the numbers of exposures get big, I do back up.
yeah, without a way to backup in-camera, the more storage, the higher the risk. At least with external storage one can create multiple backups at different locations and using different media, but in-camera, unless it’s one of the few 2-slot cameras, the risks increase as storage size increases.