How Much Storage Do You Need?

A 1GB Microdrive can hold almost 300 RAW mode images and many hundreds more in the JPG modes. If like me you shoot on location, sometimes for days at a time, even a couple of such large cards still aren't going to be enough. On a week-long location shoot I can easily shoot 40-50 36 exposure rolls, or a couple of thousand frames. At 3MB a frame that's some 6 Gigabytes. What to do?

One solution is to bring along a laptop computer. The large screen can be used to review the day's shoot and the computer can also be used for email, navigation and other applications. But the downside is the added weight and bulk of a computer and as well the limited storage of even the largest hard disks. When I travel to a shoot it's almost always by air and every pound and square inch of space counts. Also, most laptops when loaded up with a variety of applications and data rarely have more than a couple of Gigabytes free, if that.

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