> > I mean, really, please someone tell me when and why I would need to > protect my memory cards unless I am somewhere in the desert > or somewhere > in the dangerous neighborhood on reporter's assignment??? >
That's exactly when they are useful, and plenty of people on the list have photographed in those conditions. You yourself are not far from deserts, where there must be a lot of dust around. When I go out photographing I don't like to carry a bag around. Instead I carry 2 cameras over my shoulders, and keep a day's worth of film in waterproof plastic boxers in cargo pockets, with various other bits and pieces secreted about my person or in a small beltbag. I have used this method when out on tiny outrigger fishing boats in India and Zanzibar, when following festivals around the mountains in Ethiopia, when photographing riots in London. I can't afford to have things falling out and getting lost, crushed or soaked, so these boxes make a lot of sense to me. Even something as relatively prosaic as hill-walking or cycling in the UK can involve getting very, very wet indeed. Anybody who likes the waterproof, dustproof properties of their K10D or LX or E1 will probably appreciate the same properties in their card case. Regards Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
