On 11 Jul 2005 at 16:25, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > I've been working with Memory Stick, Compact Flash and Secure Digital > storage cards for a long time and not yet seen a single incidence of > static discharge damage to any of them. It's certainly a possibility, > but its significance is incidental at best.
Not though our normally dry winters in Sydney, I regularly draw a spark during the day, I also often whip my cards in and out of my pockets when I'm in a rush. Though I'm sure they have diode protection I'd prefer not to have bared contact pins on my memory cards. > I have seen several cameras require repair due to bent pins in the > internal CF card socket, as well as a few cameras/readers with jammed > cards that needed a service trip to dislodge them. I've not seen this > happen with any Memory Stick or SD cameras/devices yet. Never had a problem with my CF cards to date, I've had to fix a whole lot of CD reader draws that imbeciles have managed to break however. > Memory cards are just a commodity nowadays, with fast 1G cards > approaching $70 and even lower, so it's really not that big a deal > which ones a camera uses if you don't already have a bunch of any > given type. One GB might be fine for some but SD are still over-priced and always of lesser capacity than CF cards. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
