On Dec 4, 2006, at 3:56 PM, Mark Cassino wrote: > Michael Chan wrote: >> Agreed on the Transcend. I also have had good luck with RIData's >> high-speed cards. >> >> I would NOT recommend AData. Cheap shell, broke easily. >> >> Michael > Thanks for the vote on the Transcend. > > WRT the ADate, like I said, all these SD cards feel like a potato chip > when I'm handling them. I hope they are really not as fragile as they > feel...
The AData certainly was. Felt flimsy when I bought it. When someone broke it (the casing) later, it was confirmed. But, to the credit of the card, it technically still does work. I just am waiting for an application in which I can leave it plugged into something all the time. Then again, it was a 1 gig card, which is below $20 now. I'm sorry to go on a "back in the day, uphill in the snow, both ways" riff, but I will anyway 'cause I feel punchy. :) IIRC, The type III hard drives that stored 260 Meg ran about $400 when I originally purchased them to go with the $10,000 Kodak DCS 420 (1524 X 1016) a decade ago for my company. Wasn't my money, but still, wow. Now 4G cards are 80 bucks? What a fun, affordable (in perspective) time to work in digital. I still have that 420 on my shelf (It's an N90s with a Kodak back). I wonder if the battery still holds a charge? I should go out and shoot with it some time soon just for fun/nostalgia. For some reason, I doubt it will inspire the same sort of nostalgia I feel when I shoot with a Spotmatic or a TLR. Michael Chan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
