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Shoot Priority - Sigma the only pro option
"George Preddy" wrote in message
om... David Kilpatrick wrote in message ... nospam wrote: i also find your claim of 1/30th of a second to format a card, regardless of size, a bit tough to believe. True though. It's instant. All the other cameras I've used take a second or two - a progress bar zips over maybe, or the card access light flickers. Not with the Sigma. You press the button and it's done. I usually do it twice because I suspect the camera is lying. Why all cameras aren't instant is weird. A standard quick format should be instant, nothing is physically erased just shown as empty space. It's kind of nice with photos, because with a good utility or two you can recover them after the drive is formatted, as long as they haven't been physically over-written with a subsequent shot. To be slightly pendantic, "something" is erased: The entries in the FAT (File Allocation Table) - not the directory entries, as some have erroneously suggested. In any case, this is the standard "quick format" for a FAT system. I believe that many other cameras support this as well, and absolutely every device that uses a "quick format" allows for the recovery of any un-overwritten files. While this is laudable in the Sigma camera, it is hardly unique. -- Dan (Woj...) dmaster at lucent dot com ---------------------------------- "In the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut him 'til he cried out in his anger and his shame I am leaving, I am leaving, but the fighter still remains" |
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