Andrew, I have followed your procedures ever since I bought my first DSLR in
2004 and I too have not experienced any card failure. I use CF and SD mostly
Sandisk cards of various vintages.
I too hate the oly firmware upgrade procedure for the reason you state.
Nathan
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On Jan 7, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> This one bothers me somewhat - do people here have much history of
> card failure?
> At the risk of putting the curse on myself, I've never had a card die
> on me in use. I only use Sandisk and Lexar (and a Transcend worked
> fine) and I rarely erase while shooting - IFF I've forgotten a spare.
> I don't connect my camera to the computer (damn Oly for their useless
> upgrade routine) preferring to keep devices quarantined.
> And I format the card in the camera before reuse.
> Only problem I've ever had was with a brand new Kingston SD that
> wouldn't even start and a Tomato SD that the Leica dealer gave me but
> now won't work in anything.
> Are most problems due to fragmentation that I simply avoid by constant
> reformatting?
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 08/01/2010, at 5:14 AM, AS wrote:
>
>> http://store.lexar.com/imagerescue3/
>>
>>
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