That $800 will be $29.95 before the decade is out. And by then it will be a micro-sd version.
If you don't mind my asking, what application would require a photographer to take 1,000 pictures / hour?
If you don't mind my asking, what application would require a photographer to take 1,000 pictures / hour?
We can 'set and forget' the SD card in the SD slot and have ChronoSync automatically transfer anything in our tether folder to it. It's a great backup/scratch disk. $800 is chump change for a professional photography studio.
edit: I love that I was downvoted for this.
edit: I'm not saying your comment was lame or stupid or wrong or whatever. It just didn't really fit as a reply to the parent. Perhaps someone else thought so too. I also would not have downvoted you for it. But maybe someone else did.
Also, I think you are confusing your parties in this thread.
As for price, i don't think it will even take that long. In 2 years it will cost something like 50 bucks. A USB3.0 128GB flash drive (260MB/s read, 240MB/s write) from SanDisk now costs about $100.
E.g. on Amazon UK right now I see a 256GB Lexar SD card for 300 GBP, or a 128GB SanDisk SD card for 70 GBP, or 64GB SD cards for around 30 GBP...
So expect the prices on the 256GB models to start falling shortly, and once 1TB versions arrive it won't take long until the 512GB versions drop to a quarter or less.
If you're shooting something that's impractical to retake (whether due to expense or it being an inherently one-time event) you want to use minimal compression, if any. Even if you are using compression, HD video eats gigs like popcorn. :-)
I've photographed some indoor dog agility events, for example; border collies running at top speed through moderately-lit facilities tends to mean lots of unusable photos.
ID badge "photo days" at large companies, conventions, celebrity-public photos (e.g. Comic Con-esk), etc.
They come in, snap, they leave. Rinse repeat.