Brohmelia, La Isla Escondida, Colombia

This was just a test shot in the lodge garden before we headed out for a grande night tour, meaning a very lengthy one. I remember this test shot as a marker because this is where I first switched memory cards. A 128GB one filled, in about 3 days.

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Christine Young

Lion

128GB?? Wow! That is impressive. Posted 6 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  It gets worse...double slot. On both cameras. And they all need the fastest write speeds to deal with the insanely large files, which means absurdly expensive cards times many cards. Luckily this investment is past me. Posted 6 years ago
2. 1. Christine Young
    
    Lion
    
    *Jaw drops and hangs open*
    
    In comparison, my cards are all 32 GB. No wonder your shots are such good quality. The MP must be really high? Posted 6 years ago
  2. 1. Ferdy Christant
      
      Lion
      
      Yes, it's insanely high. The D850 is 45.7MP, which produces a file of 8256 x 5504 pixels. For reference, you need almost 3 x 4K screens side by side if you would want to see each pixel. A typical file is 40-60MB, and you can imagine with macro and birding where for each usable file, I produce about 5 unusable ones, things fill up fast. Besides memory cards, you need to scale up everything, so also my computer.
      
      No regrets though, it's hard to go back once you have this. It's hard to demo on a web page, but these two photos:
      
      Are really the same photo, I just cropped the second one out of the first one to make a new one :) And as you remember, even on that second one you could still continue zooming to find the tiny beetle. Posted 6 years ago, modified 6 years ago
    2. 1. Christine Young
        
        Lion
        
        No regrets indeed! The quality is so stunning and makes the details of each photo so mesmerizing. Posted 6 years ago

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