Tip for kids doing photo assignments (limiting picture count, like a film roll)

My kids love to go out and shoot when I give them an assignment. The problem is that send them out with a 32GB card and they come back with hundreds of pictures which most are just random stuff. Great that they're having fun but it sucks to keep them focused on the assignment or to weed out the crap on the computer.

So I resized the usable part of the SD card to 256 or 512MB which corresponds to about 20 to 50 pictures on my D90 and it works! They now review and delete pictures and try to improve on ideas.

You first need to format in camera. Then you use something like the free minitool partition wizard to resize the partition and place it back in the camera. Try it!

EDIT: To make things clear, they can make as many pictures as they want. If they need more space I’ll give another card or more capacity. But at some point it’s full and they start to review and delete the pictures the don’t like. If they want or need double the size or more: no problem. But I get zero requests. They still make a hundreds of pictures but only return with the ones that they”re proud of. FWIW they’re 8 and 9 years old.