On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:55:30AM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> 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 have never seen that it makes any difference whatsoever whether I > format a card or delete all. I only use delete all when I've got a card > of mixed stuff that I want to keep some things around on ... I set the > Protect option on those things and Delete All clears out everything else. > Otherwise, I just Format the card after use because it's faster and > easier to do. ALWAYS in the camera ONLY. > > I've done this with every flash media I've owned since the beginning. > Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, CF, SD, SDHC, xD ... all of them. No > difference at all. > > Godfrey
I do pretty much what Godfrey does. I reformat (rather than "delete all") because that results in less I/O to the card, and flash media do gradually wear out. I reformat in-camera because that guarantees the card is formatted with a file system the camera understands. -- 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.
