On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Jaume Lahuerta <[email protected]> wrote: > ...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...
This seems very silly. CF cards have the most fragile connectors in use today, with two rows of fine pin couplings that have to push in squarely. SD cards (and all the other more modern cards) were designed to minimize damage compared to CF's multipin connector, using large, sliding contacts that wipe and clean themselves by the very act of removal and replacement. The number of times CF get screwed up by handling is orders of magnitude larger than for SD cards, and CF cards don't get damaged all that frequently anyway. I've used card readers exclusively since I started shooting with digital cameras using removable flash memory cards in 2002. I've probably pulled my card in and out of the camera, in and out of the card reader, several thousands of times for each card. I've not yet had a card problem traceable to a damaged connector. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
