Re: SD Formatter

2014-01-23 Thread Aahz Maruch
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013, Mark Roberts wrote: Agreed. I occasionally format cards on my computer. Never had an issue. Hever heard of anyone else having an issue either. FUD is the word. Maybe not. We rented some m43 equipment a few weeks ago, and the Panasonic GX7 was being weirdly slow about

Re: SD Formatter

2014-01-23 Thread steve harley
on 2014-01-23 8:08 Aahz Maruch wrote On Wed, Dec 18, 2013, Mark Roberts wrote: Agreed. I occasionally format cards on my computer. Never had an issue. Hever heard of anyone else having an issue either. FUD is the word. Maybe not. We rented some m43 equipment a few weeks ago, and the

Re: SD Formatter

2014-01-23 Thread Peter McIntosh
On 24 January 2014 02:08, Aahz Maruch a...@pobox.com wrote: Maybe not. We rented some m43 equipment a few weeks ago, and the Panasonic GX7 was being weirdly slow about booting up and shutting down. Reformatting the SD card in the GX7 made it fast again. Dunno whether doing the reformat in

Re: SD Formatter

2013-12-19 Thread Christine Aguila
That’s what I do as well. Cheers, Christine On Dec 18, 2013, at 2:36 PM, John johnsess...@yahoo.com wrote: I use the in camera format to erase cards for re-use. On 12/18/2013 12:25 PM, John Francis wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:55:16AM -0500, Kenneth Waller wrote: I've read several

Re: SD Formatter

2013-12-18 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: I've never had any problem formatting my SD cards in camera but the SD Association (they maintain the SD Card standards) suggest that you can get better performance using the SD Formatter 4.0 software for SD/SDHC

Re: SD Formatter

2013-12-18 Thread Stan Halpin
On Dec 17, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Brian Walters wrote: I've never had any problem formatting my SD cards in camera but the SD Association (they maintain the SD Card standards) suggest that you can get better performance using the SD Formatter 4.0 software for SD/SDHC/SDXC cards. It's a free

Re: SD Formatter

2013-12-18 Thread Igor Roshchin
Wed Dec 18 09:14:42 EST 2013 Stan Halpin wrote: On Dec 17, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Brian Walters wrote: I've never had any problem formatting my SD cards in camera but the SD Association (they maintain the SD Card standards) suggest that you can get better performance using the SD Formatter

Re: SD Formatter

2013-12-18 Thread Kenneth Waller
I've read several places that in camera formatting is preferred over computer formatting. -Original Message- From: Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info Subject: Re: SD Formatter On Dec 17, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Brian Walters wrote: I've never had any problem formatting my SD cards

Re: SD Formatter

2013-12-18 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:55:16AM -0500, Kenneth Waller wrote: I've read several places that in camera formatting is preferred over computer formatting. That's what I do. I wouldn't bet that a camera can read a card formatted with every possible variation possible while staying within the

Re: SD Formatter

2013-12-18 Thread steve harley
on 2013-12-18 7:08 Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote I would be most curious to find out what exactly this formatter does. yeah, there is far too much voodoo and FUD on subjects such as these; i've done generic FAT format (on OS X) as well as in camera and the only surprise i've had is that

Re: SD Formatter

2013-12-18 Thread Mark Roberts
steve harley wrote: on 2013-12-18 7:08 Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote I would be most curious to find out what exactly this formatter does. yeah, there is far too much voodoo and FUD on subjects such as these; i've done generic FAT format (on OS X) as well as in camera and the only

Re: SD Formatter

2013-12-18 Thread Bruce Walker
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com wrote: steve harley wrote: on 2013-12-18 7:08 Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote I would be most curious to find out what exactly this formatter does. yeah, there is far too much voodoo and FUD on subjects such as these;

Re: SD Formatter

2013-12-18 Thread John
I use the in camera format to erase cards for re-use. On 12/18/2013 12:25 PM, John Francis wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:55:16AM -0500, Kenneth Waller wrote: I've read several places that in camera formatting is preferred over computer formatting. That's what I do. I wouldn't bet that

SD Formatter

2013-12-17 Thread Brian Walters
I've never had any problem formatting my SD cards in camera but the SD Association (they maintain the SD Card standards) suggest that you can get better performance using the SD Formatter 4.0 software for SD/SDHC/SDXC cards. It's a free download for Windows Mac. https://www.sdcard.org

Re: SD Formatter

2013-12-17 Thread Zos Xavius
get better performance using the SD Formatter 4.0 software for SD/SDHC/SDXC cards. It's a free download for Windows Mac. https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org

Re: SD Formatter

2013-12-17 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting Zos Xavius zosxav...@gmail.com: I'd be willing to bet money that this does nothing to improve performance. Probably, but if a card starts acting flaky, it can't do any harm to try formatting with SD Formatter. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters

Re: SD Formatter

2013-12-17 Thread Bruce Walker
that you can get better performance using the SD Formatter 4.0 software for SD/SDHC/SDXC cards. It's a free download for Windows Mac. https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons

Re: SD Formatter

2013-12-17 Thread David Mann
On Dec 18, 2013, at 11:34 am, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Probably, but if a card starts acting flaky, it can't do any harm to try formatting with SD Formatter. If I couldn't trust a card I'd stop using it... Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net