The only cards I've had fail mechanically were some cheap/inexpensive 2G
Patriot cards from Fry's. After a while they started to fall apart, so
I stopped using them before they stopped working.
I have an external USB hub/card reader on my iMac, and a card reader
that fits like a hard drive in my desktop linux box. I use LR3 import on
copy to get the files onto my mac, then move the card over to the linux
box and use mv to copy my backups onto its hard drive.
On 10/15/2010 09:50 AM, Jaume Lahuerta wrote:
Hi,
I always transfer pictures to my PC using its card reader. I can't remember why
I decided to do it this way, possibly because it is faster and doesn't eat the
camera's battery.
However, I have been in contact with a person specialized in recovery disks and
cards from hardware failures, and he showed me how fragile the contacts in the
memory cards are. Also he told me horror stories about cards being damaged only
by taking them in and out of the camera...all this scared me a bit, frankly.
So...how do you tranfer your pictures? Do you think that there is a risk in
removing frequently the card from the camera?
Thanks,
Jaume
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