On 1/13/07, Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
"format" also implies "reformat". If you format the card in the camera, you can be pretty darned sure it is erased, and the camera can write to it. I've taken to a read-only workflow on the card reader on my computer. If it's stuff that I think is important, I'll toggle the write-protect tab on the card before putting it in the card reader. From there, I use the Adobe DNG converter to copy off the files, and I'll back them up to a safe location before doing anything to them in terms of processing. -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
