Would you spend $600 on this SanDisk 512GB Extreme Pro card?

9 years 3 months ago #420034 by Little Kate
I just noticed this card on B&H site and a little taken back at home much a single memory card is.  Card prices have come down in recent years, not to mention this is a huge card.  Has anyone picked up a card of this size?  

www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1082352-R...AQ&InitialSearch=yes


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9 years 3 months ago #420100 by Kristy Blake
That's more than I would spend on a memory card. 


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9 years 3 months ago #420101 by effron
No.

Why so serious?
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9 years 3 months ago #420110 by icepics
What does it do, hop out of the camera and load your pictures onto your computer for you? lol

The description mentions bursts and video etc. so maybe someone doing that type work in photography might use it. 32gb Extreme has been plenty for me to shoot Raw, and took a year and a half to fill up one card (of course I also shoot film and do alt processes etc.).

Sharon
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9 years 3 months ago #420114 by Joves
Would I? No, not unless someone just hit me over the head hard enough to bring up more stupid cells. But for someone who shoots video it is a Class 10 card, so the price may well be worth it. 


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9 years 3 months ago #420137 by Tuscan Muse
Nope, not ever.
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9 years 3 months ago #420159 by garyrhook
Larger capacity devices of every type are always priced at a premium: hard drives, memory sticks, etc. This is no different. What it does is drive down the cost of prior devices. Which may or may not be a good thing.

As for video, at a modest 10 min / 2 GB, that's over 80 hours of HD video on a card. 20 hours of 4K video (using a factor of 4 for the size.) Who needs that? You can't fill that up in a day, and if you're serious about video you are backing up your work constantly to avoid a single point of failure.

No, that capacity is in the SSD class of devices. And the card is a technology statement more than anything else.

Of course, to be fair, if the camera supported it you could be writing your video in parallel to 2 large SD cards. But still, really?

I'm interested in hearing other ideas about this.


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9 years 3 months ago #420192 by Eliffman
Well there you go, you could record a 4k movie on there and then some!  


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9 years 3 months ago #420194 by Baydream

Joves wrote: Would I? No, not unless someone just hit me over the head hard enough to bring up more stupid cells. But for someone who shoots video it is a Class 10 card, so the price may well be worth it. 


:agree:
  Maybe for some heavy duty video only. Biggest cards I use are 32GB (have 2 Sandisc Extremes on their way for about $50). I have filled a 32Gb card in a full day at a waterfowl park. May do that again in a couple weeks at a place where the farmers toss out frozen chicken carcasses and hundreds of eagles gather.
Having several 32s and downloading, I feel safe shooting more cards until I have backed up my HD. That way I always have 2 copies.

Shoot, learn and share. It will make you a better photographer.
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9 years 3 months ago #420215 by Randy Shaw
A little rich for my taste, that's a lens! 


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9 years 3 months ago #420216 by stuartsbarbie
No. SD cards are small enough that I don't mind carrying several.


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9 years 3 months ago #420250 by Tim Dordeck
Not to mention accidentally losing this card.  OUCH $600 out the window.  


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9 years 2 months ago #424115 by Greg Friedman
No way, that's a lot of money just for a memory card


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9 years 2 months ago #427216 by Eliffman
Pass


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9 years 2 months ago #427312 by David Mckeegan
Wouldn't matter if it was free, I wouldn't use a 512GB card full stop

I don't use anything over 16GB for the simple reason of in the unlikely event that a card corrupts or goes missing it is less information lost


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