On Aug 17, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Bertil Holmberg wrote:
The card type or brand is not only a question of speed.
I bought a 256 MB SanDisk card for my *istDs that worked well in
the camera but was impossible to read from my puter, not even when
I attached the camera directly to my Mac.
A 64 MB Kingston card that I had in my Optio worked fine, however,
so I assumed the SanDisk card was faulty and had it replaced. Same
problem with the new card, though.
Next, I got a new card reader and that setup worked for a month or
so with the SanDisk card, after which I was back at square one.
Finally, I bought a 256 MB Kingston card that has worked fine ever
since.
Hmm. I have had a Sandisk 256Mbyte SD card for a couple of years,
used it first in my Konica Revio, then the Pana FZ10, then the *ist
DS for a backup, and now it lives in my Palm Treo as backup storage
most of the time. I've probably stuck it in my card reader and
downloaded its contents to the Mac on my desk a thousand times or
more. What kind of card reader are you using? (BTW: I've heard more
problems reading cards by connecting the camera directly than I've
heard about with card readers. I think all of the card readers that
I've seen reports of problems from are the Dazzle brand.)
As I mentioned to Shel off-line, I've not yet had a single card
failure of any kind with any brand of flash memory card, after some
tens of thousands of exposures. Sandisk is one of the larger and
better respected manufacturers. ATP have the best quality I've seen,
however.
Godfrey
