On my recent trip, I carried a wallet with six cards in it: four 2G and two 1G, plus a 2G in the camera. Capturing entirely in RAW format with the DS, I only once actually filled a 2G in the course of a single day's shooting and had to fit a second card... but I often shot just enough to have filled a 1G. I guess the 2G are large enough for my usual shooting habits with this camera. I'll be interested to see how the K10D changes that with its larger file sizes. It's nice to standardize on a card capacity that covers an average day's shooting without changing cards.
Regards form factor, I have no problem with SD card size and find them easier to handle than CF cards. The compact size and protected, simple, sliding electrical contacts work well. I don't like the multipin interface on the CF cards for devices that are connected and disconnected frequently ... my experience shows them to be more likely to fail. xD cards are miserable. They're half the size of SD and one half of one side are covered with the very fine sliding contact fingers ... very easy to get fingerprints on them in handling, and since the cards are wider than they are deep it's harder to push them into cage slots evenly. A poor design. However, all three work and I don't think about them much, I use whatever a given camera requires. It's much like film: I taught myself how to load the Pentax 645 film carrier last night. It requires a few gyrations similar to loading Hasselblad backs. A slow process, relative to the simple loading experience of a Rolleiflex TLR, but what the heck? And it makes handling any flash memory card look like a piece of cake. :-) Godfrey On Nov 12, 2006, at 6:42 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > ... The cards are marginal in > size for me. Anything smaller - even a little smaller - would be > difficult > to handle. As it is, there are times when I can't get a solid grip > on the > card, but, fortunately, that's only when trying to remove it from the > built-in card reader in my computer. In that situation, dropping the > card's no big deal as it'll land on the desk. > > ... > Godders showed me an XD card - yikes! Way to small for Mr. > Fumblefingers. > >> I've pretty much decided to stick with 1GB and 2GB media (I've been >> using 1GB in my *ist D) just because at 70 to 71 RAW 6MP photos >> per GB, >> it's just too many to lose at once. And the one thing I really don't >> like about the SD cards is the size. They're a bit too small IMO >> and >> too easy to physically lose. >> >> But I'm waiting until I know my K10D has shipped to buy any media, >> because the prices just keep dropping on them. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
