I've become more skeptical of off-brand cards with the K10D. I never had a problem with CF cards in the *istD, using a number of low buck cards. With the K10D and SD cards, I had an early failure with a Transcend 2 gig, 150X card, and Boris seems to be having some problems with another bargain brand. I'm going to stick to Sandisk or Lexar for now. I just ordered a two gig Sandixk to replace my failed Transcend. It was only $77 from Amazon. Not as cheap as a Trascend from New Egg, but still quite reasonable. (Plus I had a $50 gift certificate at Amazon from the parents of the groom, whose wedding I shot for nix. ) There are probably even some better deals out there on the Sandisk cards. Paul On Jan 13, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> > On Jan 13, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Mark Cassino wrote: > >> I've always taken the same approach - but my X's Drive II started >> having >> problems reading the 2 gig SD cards used in the K10D. >> >> The drive's manual said to make sure the cards were formatted >> before use >> to avoid the error I was getting. So I formated all of the cards >> off a >> PC, and they now work fine. (I've started just deleting files via the >> camera, not re-formatting every time I want to clear a card.) >> >> Beats me as to what the difference would be - "format before use" >> seems >> to be an oxymoron since it would be impossible to write to an >> unformatted card, right? > > Cards come formatted but I don't trust the formatting to be 100% > compatible with what a particular camera does when it formats, so I > always reformat the cards before using them. Always format your cards > with the camera, not a computer. > > Godfrey > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
