I'm using Ultra II 2 gig cards in my DS and so far I've had no problems with them.
Charles Robinson wrote: > I thought I had a bum card, which I've started the RMA process on. In > the interim I bought ANOTHER Sandisk UltraII (different store, > different style of card so it's not the same "batch" of cards) and I'm > getting the same annoying behavior. > > When I'm at a concert, I'll be shooting in bursts of 3-5 exposures at > a time. After the burst there is a preview of the last image shot. > > Sometimes, for no good reason, it will freeze on that last image - and > the "write" light will stay on. Finally, after half a minute or more, > I'll see a message "image was not saved" and if I'm lucky the camera > powers down but sometimes it just freezes until I (no, really!) pop > open the SD door or pop open the battery compartment to "reset" the > camera. > > Sometimes after doing this very very rash maneuver, I'll regain > control of the camera and can continue to use the card. But sometimes > I'll get "card error" and then that card is done for the night. > > I've two different ultraII cards I was attempting to use last night > and each behaved in the same way after about 100 exposures. I put in > my "Kingmax 60x" card from my Treo so I'd have something for the rest > of the evening.... and I managed 380 shots without a single error. > > So here's the $64,000 question: > > Does anyone here use Sandisk UltraII 1gig cards in their DS? If so, > have you ever had any problems with them? > > I've already gotten an RMA generated for one of the cards, so even > though I don't think it will help much, I'm sending it in for a > replacement. > > It doesn't make sense that they'd both be bad cards. But it also > doesn't make sense that there is a compatibility issue. So I'm still > trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Formatting them on > the Mac, I can fill them, copy to/from, all day without issue. But > the DS also works beautifully with "anyone else's" SD cards so it's > not really clear to me what's broken or how to proceed. > > Ideas, anyone? > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > > > > -- The difference between individual intelligence and group intelligence is the difference between Harvard University and the Harvard University football team. -- P. J. O'Roark -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
