I've made perhaps 70,000 exposures in digital cameras since 2002. I've used both delete all and format, with no pattern. Never lost an image, have not had a card go bad or be unreadable yet.
G On Dec 3, 2006, at 9:12 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > According to the various articles I read, it's suggested to never > format > your card in the computer, only in the camera in which it will be > used. > Amongst all the articles and comments that I read, someone - I > forget who - > suggested formatting twice. This was someone whose work and > expertise I > generally respect - of course, I can no longer recall who - maybe > Bruce > Fraser? - and so I just got in the habit of formatting twice. NBD, > especially with a fast card matched to the capabilitiy of the > istDS. Do I > need to do it? Perhaps not, but it makes me feel good and secure, > so I do > it. And maybe it does help, and maybe some day it will save an > image or > two, so for the expenditure of an additional 1.5 seconds per day, I'll > format twice. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
