There's just one big problem with the new camera, and it's not really a fault of the camera but of the speed of memory cards. Shooting RAW NEF files at 14bit, each file is about 25MB. Now work out that multiplied by 9 frames per second = 225MB per second. My 8GB Sandisk Extreme III card seriously isn't up to speed.

My other cards are even slower and thus, a bit of a waste of time. I only kept around 800 shots from last weekend at History Alive and it was due to a lack of card memory and knowing that adding more than 20GB of images to my system at home was going to require a huge shuffle and immediate backup burn and clearout of drives. A mate suggested his solution, being the installation of a swappable SATA HDD bay and just buying up a stack of 500GB Western Digital drives while they are so lovely and cheap.

So that's the plan, along with buying a few 8GB 266x cards now that they are down to about $150. The 133x cards just seem too slow in the D3......

I spent some time this morning pricing telephoto glass on ebay. It looks like I will end up using Sigma glass for a while to get by till I can afford Nikkor and Zeiss glass. Even that won't be until I have had a couple of wedding deposits come in.

I've uploaded a few shots from H.A. already, I hope you like them!

Right then, I'm off to recode my website to make it really clear that I am available for weddings.