For me it's perfect when we tether our shoots to an SSD Macbook Pro.

We can 'set and forget' the SD card in the SD slot and have ChronoSync automatically transfer anything in our tether folder to it. It's a great backup/scratch disk. $800 is chump change for a professional photography studio.

edit: I love that I was downvoted for this.

Possibly because there is zero connection between your comment and the parent comment?

Actually, there is and I got the connection perfectly. It's an automatic way to have a separate copy of a high volume shoot where you don't have to interrupt shooting because of the tethering.

Parent comment talks about the price and how in a bit is will be cheaper and smaller. And then asked about when a person would need 1000 pics an hour. You didn't really connect any of that. You talked about tethering.

edit: I'm not saying your comment was lame or stupid or wrong or whatever. It just didn't really fit as a reply to the parent. Perhaps someone else thought so too. I also would not have downvoted you for it. But maybe someone else did.

He replied to me, and I got the reference. I realized that the studio implied the 1000 pics / hour. That thought had not occurred to me but the example made it clear. You don't always need to have everything spelled out. The other example mentioned (sports photography) and fashion used to rely on motor drives, I had completely forgotten about those. And they would go through a roll of film like there was no tomorrow. It's just not something I ever used or did.

Also, I think you are confusing your parties in this thread.

my bad. I did confuse the two of you. never mind.

Sports photographers probably take 1000 photos/hour. :)

As for price, i don't think it will even take that long. In 2 years it will cost something like 50 bucks. A USB3.0 128GB flash drive (260MB/s read, 240MB/s write) from SanDisk now costs about $100.

A good indication is that the price of SD cards is largely down to "is this the currently largest card? If so, apply massive premium".

E.g. on Amazon UK right now I see a 256GB Lexar SD card for 300 GBP, or a 128GB SanDisk SD card for 70 GBP, or 64GB SD cards for around 30 GBP...

So expect the prices on the 256GB models to start falling shortly, and once 1TB versions arrive it won't take long until the 512GB versions drop to a quarter or less.

The article mentions video applications. 50-60 frames per second -> 180,000-216,000 frames per hour (possibly much more if you're shooting at a higher frame rate).

If you're shooting something that's impractical to retake (whether due to expense or it being an inherently one-time event) you want to use minimal compression, if any. Even if you are using compression, HD video eats gigs like popcorn. :-)

Well not just video, but 4K video...

In some event photography situations, where the subject is not deliberately posing but engaged in some action, you can take a huge number of pictures and come up with only a few usable ones.

I've photographed some indoor dog agility events, for example; border collies running at top speed through moderately-lit facilities tends to mean lots of unusable photos.

> If you don't mind my asking, what application would require a photographer to take 1,000 pictures / hour?

ID badge "photo days" at large companies, conventions, celebrity-public photos (e.g. Comic Con-esk), etc.

They come in, snap, they leave. Rinse repeat.

Sport events. Model shoots.