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Wally wrote:
[] On average, you will lose the same number of shots with 8 1gb cards as with 1 8gb card, except with 8 cards, there is a greater chance of losing the card or bending pins. I'd like to see the maths behind that. When 32 gb cards come down in price a bit, that's what I will buy. Should be enough for most 2 week excursions, and I won't have to take the card out till I get home. Wally I'd also like to see independent measurements of failure rates of different brands and capacities of both CF and SD cards. Fat chance! David |
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"David J Taylor"
wrote in message news I'd also like to see independent measurements of failure rates of different brands and capacities of both CF and SD cards. Fat chance! David Would this do? http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/mul...e.asp?cid=6007 -- N |
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Doug McDonald wrote:
Mike Cawood, HND BIT wrote: "Ron Hunter" wrote in message ... I don't see this as a problem. First, most photographers have no use for SD cards larger than 2GB, let alone 32GB. I have 11 GB of CF cards total. I consider it enough, not too much. I have to be able to carry cards and (charged) batteries for up to two weeks shooting in areas where there is no way to charge a battery (short of solar cells of course) especially one big enough to run a laptop computer. I have come close to filling up the 11 gigs. A picture takes up about 9 megabytes, 11 gigs is thus roughly 1200 pictures. This seems a lot until you start taking panoramas. Them when you decide you need HDR panoramas (e.g. inside Carlsbad Caverns) everything double. I'm talking 500 megabytes per final picture! Doug McDonald I would like to see some of those. As for 9MB per picture, perhaps a more frugal image format is in order for those longer excursions. And taking panos isn't something the average photographer does often, I suspect, although I have long enjoyed doing them, even before digital cameras. |
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N wrote:
"David J Taylor" wrote in message news I'd also like to see independent measurements of failure rates of different brands and capacities of both CF and SD cards. Fat chance! David Would this do? http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/mul...e.asp?cid=6007 Thanks, but no. No reliability figures as far as I could see. David |
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"David J Taylor"
wrote in message om... N wrote: "David J Taylor" wrote in message news I'd also like to see independent measurements of failure rates of different brands and capacities of both CF and SD cards. Fat chance! David Would this do? http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/mul...e.asp?cid=6007 Thanks, but no. No reliability figures as far as I could see. David Yeah, I had a poke around there, thought I remembered reliability figures being there, but apparently not, just performance figures. -- N |
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In article , Ron Hunter wrote: Mike S. wrote: In article , Jürgen Exner wrote: "David J Taylor" wrote: David J. Littleboy wrote: "Alfred Molon" wrote: Seems more and more DSLR manufacturers are switching to SD cards... SD has been winning for the last several years, David. I get the impression that CF is now a niche product - restricted to higher end, so-called "professional" DSLRs. On the other hand the SD consortium made some other very foolish design decisions. Remember that SD is limited to 2GB and SDHC to 32GB. As card capacity is quickly approaching that limit we are in for another round of "HELP, my card reader can't read my SD card", just 4 years after the previous war of confusion. The brand new SDXC finally has some leeway with 2TB (maybe they got smart finally?), but by spec it uses the proprietary exFAT, which means you need to run a new Windows if you want to read what your camera wrote. Maybe there will be a new exFAT drivers for Windows XP, maybe ther won't. Mac users will probably be fine, too, because for sure Apple is going to licence exFAT. But users of older OS's or free OS's will be left in the dark unless someone manages to illegally reverse engineer the exFAT format. exFAT drivers for XP were relased in January as MS hotfix KB955704. Hummm. Not in my list of fixes. Unless it is included in SP3, I don't have it, but then I don't need it, either. It is not offered automatically by Windows Update; you must seek it out. |
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Mike S. wrote:
In article , Ron Hunter wrote: Mike S. wrote: [] exFAT drivers for XP were relased in January as MS hotfix KB955704. Hummm. Not in my list of fixes. Unless it is included in SP3, I don't have it, but then I don't need it, either. It is not offered automatically by Windows Update; you must seek it out. FWIW, exFAT appears to be built in to Windows Vista and Windows-7. Cheers, David |
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On Fri, 22 May 2009 06:36:51 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote: : David J. Littleboy wrote: : "Alfred Molon" wrote: : : Seems more and more DSLR manufacturers are switching to SD cards... : : My first dcams were Sony (S85 and F707) which use the far superior : memory stick; I've always thought the pins that CF uses are a : disaster asking to happen. A bit of dust on the connector, and your : camera needs a trip to the mfr. I've seen lots of bent pins in that : sort of connector in the past. : So maybe this is good news. : : (Our CEO just bought a portable DVD player, and it has an SD card : slot, so it does seem that SD is winning.) : : SD has been winning for the last several years, David. I get the : impression that CF is now a niche product - restricted to higher end, : so-called "professional" DSLRs. : : Just be thankful that it's not micro-SD which has won! Too many lost : cards then. G Ah, but the useful thing about micro-SD cards is that spies can swallow them. Just try swallowing a CF card! Bob |
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David J Taylor wrote:
N wrote: "David J Taylor" wrote in message news I'd also like to see independent measurements of failure rates of different brands and capacities of both CF and SD cards. Fat chance! David Would this do? http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/mul...e.asp?cid=6007 Thanks, but no. No reliability figures as far as I could see. David Did you read all of the pages! |
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Ron Hunter wrote:
David J Taylor wrote: N wrote: "David J Taylor" wrote in message news I'd also like to see independent measurements of failure rates of different brands and capacities of both CF and SD cards. Fat chance! David Would this do? http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/mul...e.asp?cid=6007 Thanks, but no. No reliability figures as far as I could see. David Did you read all of the pages! I looked through all 24 pages, and if there was a table showing reliability versus make, style and size, I missed it! G David |
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