These were last year's bonfire night efforts, looking at them probably zoomed in too far and will try to get the 'bigger picture' this time, but they weren't too bad!

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if anyone is looking for more storage etc.

Think I will have a couple of those, cheers.

I currently have some CF versions and I'm pretty impressed with them.

A question inspired by the link Standee posted.

Would you rather have 1 32gb card or 3 or 4 smaller ones?

A mix, I have 8gb ones in my SLR, but use larger ones in my HD video camera.

My old Fuji takes Xd cards, which are now hard to get and expensive.

Personally, I'd take the widest lens I had (depending on how far I can get from the fireworks). I've done a lot of firework photography (I go to the Southport Championships each year amongst other things) and whilst I've got a lot of technically good fireworks shots they can start being very samey if you can't get enough into the frame - with a fireworks photo taken in Southport looking no different to one taken in my local park or one taken in Vancouver. I like to go wide and include some context, be it a silhouette of crowds or Blackpool Tower or something. Some of the best fireworks photos I have are from the bay at Swanage, where I managed to get a good distance away and got plenty of water reflections and the buildings around the bay lit with the glow of the fireworks.

I have 1 64GB, 2 x 32GB, 2 x 16 GB, mainly becaise I "lost" a bag with my SD cards and a load of Go Pro accessories in it, replaced the lot and then found the bag which had been "tidied" away, in our house the verb "tidy" means "Put it where he'll never think to look"

Thanks very much Iain, as the fireworks are being launched from North Pier I'm going to try and get further down the prom so will have a good distance between me and the fireworks. I've seen alot taken from Central Pier but i'm thinking that will be pretty packed and don't think the beach will be an option due to tide times, but will have the pier itself and the showbar at the end.

Speaking of cards, I have a 4gb card that is empty, but my camera shows it as being full and another that is full (I can put the pics on my Mac in Finder), but shows 'no images' in my camera. Anyone had this before.

Yup, generally symptoms of duff cards, many fakes show as empty but you can't store anything on them.

I seem to remember that there are some difficulties when memory cards have been formatted in-camera and then written to directly from the computer or vice versa.

On the subject of a few big or many small capacity cards: it used to be the received wisdom that many small were preferable because in the event of loss or failure you only lost a few of your pictures. I think that the quality of today's cards (or at least those from reputable manufacturers and sources) negates the failure aspect to a large degree but, of course, is no help if you physically lose the card or if it gets "tidied up".

I tend to use 32GB cards and dump their contents onto a desktop, laptop or iPad asap. Two copies "as taken" on two separate devices and then re-format.

it was this time last year that I posted on here that I'd lost a whole holidays worth of photos (300 or so) from a memory card that was still working but seemed to have partitioned itself so that it only showed the pictures from the last day, following advice on here I downloaded some commercial software to recover everything (it cost about £30) and then reformat the card from the PC with the card in the camera attached via USB - has worked fine since but I'm very suspicious about it now and will replace it if I ever need to use it for valuable photos or prolonged use.

Used both CF and SD cards from Transcend and never had any issues!

In answer to that other question re Card sizes I'd much rather have 3/4 mid size (ie 16GB) than one or two 64GB ones just in case they get lost or anything, less photos to lose per card

I can't quite understand why anyone would leave on the card, as soon as I have access to my lpatop or PC they are copied and backed up.

Having just upgraded to a Canon 7D I now understand that a 16GB card IS a mid size card...

I mistakenly put a 2GB card in when I was at Banham Zoo, it was full in under 3 minutes.

Any how, just ordered a couple more 16GB Trancends, at just over £15 delivered I can't complain.

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Just as we pulled up in the car in Blackpool having driven over from Hull announcement on the radio, tonights international fireworks have been cancelled due to high winds.

Gutted!!

Nice pictures, BG. The last one though is a leopard, not a cheetah.

Thanks and yeah the wife has already pointed that out, it's a Sri Lankan leopard.

are you using the 7D "freehand" or with a tripod of some sort, it's a cracking camera but fairly heavy??

All those pics were handheld with a 70-200mm f2.8 plus a 1.4x extender and the battery grip, yes it's heavy but not overly, I can happily walk around all day with it on a Black Rapid strap without breaking a collarbone.

just need to sell an I4 and an ES550 to finance the purchase now!!!

So do I Standee but if I'm away I don't have access to my PC (don't have a laptop unfortunately!)

I know the feeling, recently got 5D Mk 2 and 16GB is all of a sudden a 'small' card haha

Whats your thoughts on the 7D at high ISO's Graeme?