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Got a gear question you want\/need answered? I want to help and answer it. Send your gear questions to me at Gear Questions<\/strong><\/a> and I’ll do my best every Wednesday to answer as many questions as I can. Keep in mind the answers are just my $.02 worth and you have to take what works for you and your photography and embrace it and ignore the rest. So here’s this weeks questions ….<\/p>\n Thanks for your insight into so many subjects. My question is about memory cards. Moose Got a gear question you want\/need answered? I want to help and answer it. Send your gear questions to me at Gear Questions and I’ll do my best every Wednesday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"GearHead Wednesday 14 - 25 http:\/\/wp.me\/p6YJx-9dE cards and wide lenses this week","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-35442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-new"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Podcast.jpg?fit=1500%2C1500&quality=100&ssl=1","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"amazon":{"key":"amazon","url":"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/Podcast\/B08JJQC1GR?ref=a_pd_item-n_c0_bc&pf_rd_p=1da7ab30-c785-4a0e-a160-4a7e7077b353&pf_rd_r=EEDMYHQM3DZ05FPRTHMJ","label":"Amazon","class":"amazon","icon":"amazon.png"},"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2fRA9VaVfSdQMKf1ipxr0tipxr0t","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"itunes":{"key":"itunes","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/moose-podcast\/id1107405746","label":"iTunes","class":"itunes","icon":"itunes.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/moose-podcast","embedCode":"
\nHad a 3 year old Scandisk Extreme III 16GB CF card give me an issue. “Card cannot be opened”. After some sweating and file recovery software, I recovered all the NEF’s along with what appears to be most of every NEF ever taken on the card. I reformat when I put any card in my D700 and usually limit my cards to about 500 shots before downloading and reformatting. Do you do something different or limit your cards to a certain life? Do they need to be “retired” after so many files?
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\nFrank, sorry to hear you had card issues. Knock on wood, but I’ve not had card issues and that could be for a number of reasons. I use Lexar and right now, shoot with the 256CF<\/a> \/ 64XQD<\/a> in the D4s<\/a> and the 128SD<\/a> in the Df<\/a>. I do nothing to “limit” them and regularly in the D4s hit 5000 images from a shoot in one card. I also ALWAYS format my cards in the computer and don’t rely on the format in the camera. Using PhotoMechanic, I use the settings that automatically Erase and Eject cards after ingest is finished. I have always done this and it has never let me down. And the only time I “retire” a card is when bigger and faster come along. <\/font><\/p>\n
\nYou seem to have lots of questions about long lenses but nearly none on wide angle lenses. Why is that? I’m in the market for a wide angle zoom and have narrowed down my preferences between the lens you write about alot, the 18-35 and the wildly popular 16-35. Is there a difference between the two I should know about?
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\nJeff
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\nJeff, I don’t think many ask about wide angle lenses because in general, they aren’t as scary a purchase. When it comes to the two lenses you’re inquiring about, the 18-35AFS<\/a> and 16-35AFS<\/a>, the one big difference you might not be aware about is the price and weight. The 18-35 costs less and is lighter than the 16-35. After that the 16-35 is a tad wider and the wide end. After that is comes down to personal preference and for what it’s worth, I don’t think you can go wrong with either lens!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GearHead Wednesday 14 – 25<\/a><\/blockquote>