Memory Cards For Keeping Those Memories
Last year I took a dream-come-true cruise to Alaska. One of the shore excursions was a train trip up to White Pass Summit. I was so excited!
I had a memory card with lots and lots of space. Ginormous amounts of gigabytes. I was good to go! I just knew I’d have some really great pictures of all that super scenery, and stood out on a tiny little platform for hours in cold and often rainy weather snapping away. I filled that card with what I was sure were memorable photos.
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Corruption Happens
Well, I thought wrong. While the scenery was indeed breathtaking, but what really took my breath away was when I tried to load the pictures onto my computer. Up popped one of those nasty “ERROR” messages informing me the computer could not access those files.
Yep, just like a lot of politicians, the files were corrupt. Nooooo! There was no way to access them, so all those wonderful pictures were gone, gone, gone.
So while it doesn’t happen often, cards can and do go bad. That’s why it’s better to buy two smaller cards for your digital camera than one humongous card. For instance, if you’re looking at buying a 4-GB card, get a couple of 2-GB cards instead, or even four 1-GB cards.
Yeah, yeah, I know it’s cheaper to buy a huge bunch of gigabytes on one card. But if that one card goes bad, there goes ALL your pictures. And what happens if you lose or break that one card? Don’t make the same mistake I did. It’s better to have part of your pictures than none of your pictures.
The Bottom Line
Pay attention to the moral of the story and buy more than one memory card. Two cards are better than one cause some photos are better than none!
