Make that "there are probably some better deals out there." Gawd, I hate it when I sound like a nincompoop:-). Paul On Jan 13, 2007, at 5:41 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
> 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
