What is the life of an SDHC card?
- Thread starter ramkuma
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It depends on the card. You can find estimated failure for some, but the number is ridiculously high. Your card will pretty much not fail from too many read/writes; it'll be some other force that does it. If it does fail from that it's a quirk in your particular card, since they're all a little different.
Plan on retiring your card after using it 1,000 times and you should be good to go. Even if it's only 100 shoots then how much did that cost per shoot? Think about that relative to all the other things that go in to shooting, not only the camera, the microphone, the bag, but also the gas it took to get you there. If you consider the SD card a consumable just like anything else as you can reasonably stop worrying.
Flash memory typically has a 100,000 over write life. Some will last less, some will last more. The FAT32 directory blocks are going to be the most vulnerable, but even so, shoot and relax.... unless you are approaching that life cycle count in which case you've had your money's worth already - so buy another
Flash memory typically has a 100,000 over write life. Some will last less, some will last more. The FAT32 directory blocks are going to be the most vulnerable, but even so, shoot and relax.... unless you are approaching that life cycle count in which case you've had your money's worth already - so buy another
Mr. MeDallion
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I have a general question unrelated to this topic. I just signed up and under going processing.......I think. not for sure where to post.
I'm going into my second year as a local event videographer into producing web commercials. As I have been reading, the cable companies make sells by offering free shoots for air time. I'd like to know what's an effective way to market my offers for 30 - 60 sec online commercial to local small business owners. I did some research and produced three web commercial demos this year. Other small business owners really liked what they saw, but those same ones who liked what they saw wasn't for sure about a production shoot.
What's a level soultion? Try a different part of the city, produce more alternative courtesy commercials, or what? I studied other web commercials and some are awesome and some are worst than mine. Not really a marketing specailist but I even offer incentives:
(a) 20% discount to owners who's been in business less than a year. (b) Repeat clients will have a bonus 15 sec edit included.
(c)Contracted leads and referrals will be provided with one to two actors on me.
Currently my prices are low starting from only $300 - $1500. I've been told "it's a really good deal Mr. MeDallion", so we chat on the phone and send emails but they are unable to commit to a production shoot. I do realize free business will run me out of business. Just trying to get the results I need because producing web commercials to me are a lot more creative than weddings. Your advice is appreciated.
Cassius are you some kind of guru? You give great advice as I've seen you and afew others names on several forums.
This my second year as a event videographer going into web ads. Here are some links if you guys are curious about my works.
Directed, Shot, & Edited
http://vimeo.com/16512943
http://vimeo.com/16573489
Shot only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAwcLDYIeLc
I'm going into my second year as a local event videographer into producing web commercials. As I have been reading, the cable companies make sells by offering free shoots for air time. I'd like to know what's an effective way to market my offers for 30 - 60 sec online commercial to local small business owners. I did some research and produced three web commercial demos this year. Other small business owners really liked what they saw, but those same ones who liked what they saw wasn't for sure about a production shoot.
What's a level soultion? Try a different part of the city, produce more alternative courtesy commercials, or what? I studied other web commercials and some are awesome and some are worst than mine. Not really a marketing specailist but I even offer incentives:
(a) 20% discount to owners who's been in business less than a year. (b) Repeat clients will have a bonus 15 sec edit included.
(c)Contracted leads and referrals will be provided with one to two actors on me.
Currently my prices are low starting from only $300 - $1500. I've been told "it's a really good deal Mr. MeDallion", so we chat on the phone and send emails but they are unable to commit to a production shoot. I do realize free business will run me out of business. Just trying to get the results I need because producing web commercials to me are a lot more creative than weddings. Your advice is appreciated.
Cassius are you some kind of guru? You give great advice as I've seen you and afew others names on several forums.
This my second year as a event videographer going into web ads. Here are some links if you guys are curious about my works.
Directed, Shot, & Edited
http://vimeo.com/16512943
http://vimeo.com/16573489
Shot only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAwcLDYIeLc
Rick Burnett
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Yep, 100,000 writes is pretty common. I've worked on flash technology before at the silicon level. And that is per bit, so the chances of you running into a problem in a LONG time is pretty slim. That said, I'd figure the contacts might wear out beforehand.