[overcast]

I understand its use case. Now imagine you're on location shooting, and you're fumbling around with tiny SD cards. It wouldn't be the first time I've dropped one. Even compact flash I try not to put TOO much work on one before I switch them over.

To say that every consumer is going to use it only as a temporary medium, I think is overly optimistic.

[cptskippy]

I think part of the appeal of high capacity cards is that you spend less time fumbling with cards. A 1TB card would probably last an entire day of shooting HD video. As an amateur photographer, I generally keep 2 extra SD cards on hand but they're backups and not used. I don't think I've ever filled up the 64GB card that I shoot with and at the end of the day I move off what was shot. If I'm shooting on vacation I'll generally leave a copy of the images on the card so that I have 2 copies floating around but I've yet to fill up the card.

This card probably isn't targeting the consumer market. I think smartphone cameras have cannibalized much of the Point-and-Shoot camera and PVR market. That being said, I think most consumers purchase one SD card when they buy their camera and it's the only card that camera ever sees.

[eropple]

I get what you're saying, and it is a concern, but there is a decent argument (to me, anyway) that with 1TB you probably won't be taking the card out to be fumbling with it in the first place. Even with on-location shooting, "I filled up a 1TB card, I need to archive it" is probably a good reason for a lunch break.

[overcast]

No one in their right mind would fill a 1TB card before swapping. That's an insane amount of potential lost. I could see it as a secondary backup disk in DSLR about it.

[eropple]

If you're recording 4K video, a terabyte is about two hours of recording time. Plenty of folks will fill that before swapping.

[DanBC]

Nobody in their right mind would have thousands of photos with no backup, but most people never backup anything.

[overcast]

So what's your argument here, that you agree with me?

[vidarh]

He is saying that people will fill a 1TB card before swapping exactly the same way that people often leave thousands of photos floating around without backup.