And I just ordered a couple Transcend cards... The camera does a good job of notifying the user of this - but just in case, the card wasn't accidentally locked by any chance? Was there any error message?
Carrying an extra card is a good idea - but then, you _were_ carrying two cards. - MCC Paul Stenquist wrote: > I've had my first card failure in three years of shooting digital. I > went out to a gallery tonight that has shown my work a couple of times. > They had someone else's show opening, and I wanted to suck up and shoot > some pics for them. I left with a full card in my camera that included > some walkaround pics from this afternoon and a lot of snaps of Grace. I > took that card out and inserted a Transcend 2 gig, 150X that has been > in the card holder in the battery grip. It had some previous work on > it, so I went to format it. The formatting failed repeatedly. Wouldn't > do it. So I had to reinsert the card that was full and format it. I > hadn't downloaded the shots that were on it. There were a few good ones > that I wanted. But I had to shoot this opening. In any case, it's a > failure for a Transcend card. I'm going back to Sandisk. The bargain > Transcend cards are far more expensive if they are failure prone. One > time is one time too many. > Paul > > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

