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But you are also running a higher risk of losing some photos by using
sets of smaller cards for one assignment because you are more likely to
be removing, reinstalling, reading, etc. If you keep cards/contacts
clean, do not format in computer, do not erase photos in computer, do
not have cards in reader when re-booting, you will minimize problems
enormously. Depending on what I expect to be doing and what resolution I
expect I will choose to use, I will often use a 16 or 32 meg card rather
than a 64 or 128, my theory being that IF something really goes wrong my
costs will be lower. However, since practicing the above rules I have
never had a problem and, in fact, the only card I ever lost was an 8meg
one about three years ago. And I have never lost a photo. And this with
a total of four SM-using Oly cameras. I would also add that I do often
use my 8 or 16 meg cards for backing up data from my laptop on trips.
When done I reformat them in my camera and find that they work perfectly
well. So, from my general experience SM cards pose very, very few
problems when used with care.
/ron
me@myhome.com wrote:
>Sandisk did contact me by email today, and I had to answer some
>questions, so I'll see what happens.
>
>I also want to mention that I prefer smaller cards, such as 32 meg
>size, rather than getting larger ones. The reason being that if I have
>four 32 meg cards, and one 32 meg card fails, I lose about 40
>pictures, but still got 120 on my other three cards. If one 128 meg
>card fails, I lose ALL my pictures, including a significant amount of
>money for the cost of the card. Sure I got to swap cards more often,
>but that is not such a big deal. I hesitated to even buy the 64 meg
>size, but the 32's are no longer easy to find. I NEVER had any
>problems with 8 meg cards, which was the largest size card my original
>camera could use. I still use them if I fill my bigger cards. I tend
>to wonder if the bigger cards are just too fragile, because so much
>has to be stuffed into the same space that a used to only hold 8 megs.
>
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>On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:24:25 -0400, "David W. Poole, Jr."
><DeadSpammersAreGoodSpammers.20.dwpj65@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
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>>On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:46:10 GMT, "C0mdrData"
>><C0mdrData@NOSPAMfrontiernet.net> was understood to have stated the
>>following:
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>>>Sandisk's standard warranty on Media is 5 years.
>>>
>>>
>>I'm wondering if it's worth anything, though....
>>
>>A friend of mine purchased a Panasonic DMC-FZ10K, which came with a
>>(useless) 16mb Panasonic SD card; he also purchased a SanDisc Ultra
>>128mb or 256mb card at the same time. Given that at the time I was in
>>the market for a digital camera, I already had a 256mb Panasonic SD
>>card for my Palm Tungsten T3 (for a month or so), and I was pleased
>>with the image quality and features of his camera, I purchased the
>>same model camera. Given that I can buy Panasonic SD media from
>>Wal-Mart (sorry), I declined to purchase a SanDisc SD card from the
>>site I purchased my camera. Given how much I enjoy my digital camera
>>and how many shots I take, I've subsequently purchased two more 256mb
>>Panasonic SD cards. As the volume label is important to some of the
>>software I run on my PDA, I format my cards in the PDA so I can assign
>>a volume label.
>>
>>Within 2 weeks of my friend's purchase, he brings the SanDisc card to
>>me to see if I can do anything with it, as he can no longer do
>>anything with it in regards to his camera or his XP based PC. We're
>>not surprised in the least that my PDA can't do anything with the card
>>either; it's useless.
>>
>>The irony of this is that I have 4 Panasonic SD cards (3 256mb & 1
>>16mb) that I shuffle around constantly; after shooting I'll typically
>>swap the card that's in my PDA with the one that's in the camera, as
>>the Palm's 320x480 display makes a better viewing display (IMO) than
>>whatever is built in to the camera. I also store various program and
>>data files for my PDA on the cards, as well as program and data files
>>for Windows. I keep one 256mb card in a JumpDrive Trio, one in the
>>camera, and one in the PDA. As stated, the cards are shuffled, so no
>>particular card is used primarily for any device, so a mixture of OS's
>>(Palm OS, Windows-XP/98SE, and the Panasonic camera) are reading and
>>writing to these cards regularly and randomly. So far, there has been
>>no glitch. Granted, 2 of the Panasonic cards are a few weeks younger
>>than the SanDisc card in question, but one of the Panasonic cards is a
>>month or two older. Plus, my Panasonic cards are used *much* more
>>frequently, and for far more purposes (documents, mirrored web sites,
>>photos, MP3s), than his SanDisc card, which is used only by his
>>digital camera and his PC when he was moving the image files off the
>>card.
>>
>>I don't know the similarities between CF and SD, but given my
>>observations, I'm thinking it's much more likely that SanDisc media
>>purchasers will need the 5 year warranty. Based on this, I think I'll
>>be sticking with Panasonic media.
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Let us know what happens. And good luck.
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