Got my first gig today

[MJS]

It's hard to go wrong with extra cards and batteries. I use 2 gig ultra II''s with my D200, that way if there is a card failure, I have the work spread across the others. I just have three batteries for the camera and that has served me well during event work.

Congrats on the job.

[racedraper]

right now my card is a scandisk extreme III 4 gig best buy had a great sale,only 75 for it, should have bouht two of them. I was thinking about taking along the special AA adapter kit.

Would it be better to shoot in raw or just jpeg to get more room on my card?

[MJS]

I guess it depends on how much post work you want to do on the images. I shoot in raw almost all the time. The exception would be for events or jobs that have a lot of shots and have to be turned around quickly

[racedraper]

they want them a couple of days later.