> Per the advice from this list, I picked up the lightroom book by > Resnick and Spritzer (not to be confused with Resnick and > Halliday). They make a big deal that you should format the card in > your camera after every use, and that you shouldn't delete the last > file written to the card. > > I've never had any sort of problems just treating my SD cards like > hard drives, and only occasionally reformatting. The only card I've > had problems with is a Patriot 16GB I recently picked up that worked a > charm in the K100, but is spastic in the K20. > > Is their advice valid? Valid, even though problems are rare, valid on > CF, used to be valid, but no longer a problem?
I'm one of the people who recommends that book, but I don't take their advice on this. Normally I just delete everything from the card after I've downloaded it. However, I use different cards in different cameras - SD in the Leica and CF in the Olympus - so there's no possibility of problems caused by different levels of adherence to standards. If I had different camera models / firmware using the same type of card I would probably come up with some other idea. Since my experience with a corrupt frame at the weekend though, I will make a format of reformatting after a firmware upgrade. Bob -- 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.
