Specifications

3.6MB=8100 MB or 8.1GB. So, still we would have approximately half of our 16GB card left and 100

items is A LOT to shoot in a day.

Another type of high-volume photo shoot is event photography, such as a wedding or a sporting event.

Events are by nature limited in time and have little to no “do-overs”, unlike fashion, portrait, product, or

and just about any type of in-studio shooting where you can accommodate for models who don’t show

up or weather delays, etc.

Events can happen fast, there can be a lot of people, and it can be a challenge to attempt to cover

everything. In fact, you may need that additional memory card for your assistant who’s shooting from

another angle while you focus on the main actions of the event. Additionally, you may want to use your

camera’s continuous frames shooting option to shoot multiple times in rapid succession without having

to hit the trigger button, such as when shooting a sporting event for example. Therefore an event could

be considered a high-volume photo shoot also, as you may take hundreds of frames in order to capture

the right shot.

Finally, most digital SLR’s in the marketplace today offer video capturing features as well (Who needs a

camcorder anymore?) including High-Definition (HD) video, so if you’re using your camera to shoot video

(and you SHOULD!) then you’ll need extra memory, as video takes up a lot of space.

Memory Card Reader and/or USB wire

Most digital SLR kits will come with a USB wire to connect your camera to your computer in order to

download the photos. It used to be customary to own a memory card reader, which is just a middle-

man device that would also plus in via USB to your computer but you would remove the memory card

from your camera and insert it into the reader for download.

There are still memory card readers used and available for purchase. You may need one because

something has failed on your camera. Perhaps you wish to have one memory card downloading images

while you’re shooting on another card at the same time. A memory card reader would free up your

camera to continue shooting.

Many newer model laptops are equipped with onboard memory card slots, as do many newer home

printers, but we’ll get to that shortly.

This 25-in-1 memory card reader by Lexar is super convenient as it can read 25 of the most popular

types of memory cards (for example: Compact Flash, XD, SD, etc.) so it should have you covered. Also,

it’s only about $30 on Amazon.

Batteries

Sort of self-explanatory but, you should always have extra batteries for commercial (paid) shoots. Every

camera uses a different type of battery and every batter has a different capacity for holding charge. I

used to shoot with a Fuji S3 Pro and while I loved the camera, what I didn’t love was the fact that it took

rechargeable double AA’s. You would think this was a good thing, since double AA’s, even rechargeable

ones are pretty readily available, especially in comparison to specialty dSLR batteries. However, this

camera wouldn’t accept any ol’ rechargeable AA, it had to have a certain type, which I only discovered

after a lot of trial and error. These particular double AA rechargeable batteries I could only procure by