Letting go

[ellarien]

It's funny. When I only had 256K camera memory cards, it was easy to recycle them every couple of weeks. But a 2Gb card? With two Sheffield summers and a trip to Romania and all the cactus flowers in between? That's scary, even though I know I have copies of those photos on every hard drive I own and a couple I don't, as well as the CD backups and prints of the best ones. (The first 1Gb card, full of China photos, I retired rather than clear; they're cheap enough these days, after all.)

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[ellarien]

The price of flash memory has dropped steeply since I bought my camera; I think my original 256K cost the same as the 2Gb a couple of years later, so by the time I needed to think about overwriting the China shots I could afford not to. (The 16Mb that came with the camera is amusingly useless.)

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, it's pretty useless. I did manage to get by for a couple of weeks with it, though, before we could nip out and get a 2GB flash card, which is its own USB (you just fold it -- it's the cutest thing). I haven't filled the present card yet, and I have the luxury of carrying things around on it until I get them onto both computers.