David Farkas;433 wrote: Just to play devil’s advocate, with smaller cards and more CF card changes, you are putting more wear and tear on the connector pins, both in the camera and in the cards. I doubt with normal use you’d ever see a failure, but statistically…..
It’s not just the cycle wear on the connectors but also other risks such as dropping the card, putting in the wrong card (already full), etc. My preference is to use large cards and keep swapping in the field to a bare minimum. The safest and most protected place for a card is in the camera.
I also cycle through my cards: after every shoot spare #1 goes into the camera, spare #2 goes into spare #1’s slot, etc, and the card with images goes to the back of the line after being copied up to the server. The point is to not unwittingly wind up with duds as spares. I do the same cycling with batteries.
I treat all of these cards as fragile, especially SD cards, and never handle them over a hard surface.