I had the first bent pin on my CF card reader just this week. I bent it back and everything was fine.
Form factors on memory getting smaller is a good thing. I find SD smaller than I personally prefer, though I believe if the world was such that CF never existed and SD was the original size, I wouldn't know the difference. Tom C. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "K.Takeshita" >Subject: Re: pentax 645D cogitations > > > > I had "one" problem with CF card and that was enough to forget about it. > > It > > happened without warning, quite unexpectedly (pin problem). > > It's like a HD crash. It rarely happens but when it does, a disaster. > > Maybe a prejudice by just one time happening and may not even be a card > > problem (body side misalignment?), but so far, I have had no problem >with > > any of my SD card, be it for camera or other applications (PDA etc). > >I'm rather surprised that this group hasn't had problems with the CF >interface. We went through half a dozen or more card readers in a couple of >years because of bent pins, and also had several cameras come back because >they wouldn't work anymore, also because of bent pins. >I can only surmise that we, as a group, are more anal retentive about >babying our equipment than the norm (not that the norm is especially anal, >except about coffee). > >William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
