From: Aahz Maruch
Howdy,Larry Colen "made" me join this list (I used to be a Pentax SLR person decades ago, currently have a Nikon P7100, Larry's giving me advice on kit to rent for a mid-May Alaska cruise, which will of course be Pentax). So I checked the archives and don't see any recent threads about SD cards, and I'm wondering what size and kinds of cards people are using, particularly people with K-5/K-30. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> "Red meat isn't bad for you, fuzzy green meat is bad for you."
I've been using 4GB cards with the K-10D and 8GB cards with the K-20D. I'd probably go with at least 16GB cards for a K-5.
Tiger Direct has a retail store here, and I get almost all of my memory cards from them. Prices on 16GB Class10 SDHC cards today are about what I paid for 4GB & 8GB Class 4 cards ($12.99), and 32GB Class10 SDHC cards were $22.99.
I tend to fill the cards up & swap them out for the one in the battery grip before downloading them to my computer. Because of that, I prefer to have more small capacity cards on hand rather than fewer large capacity cards.
That way, I will lose fewer images that way if I do manage to screw up a card.
OTOH, I found an SD card in the dryer a while back that I had apparently put into my shirt pocket after downloading and it was still readable after having gone through a wash & dry cycle (no bleach).
So far, I've only ever had one card failure (the first 4GB CF card I bought for my *ist-D) that did not involve destruction of the plastic case
Will 32GB Class10 SDHC cards work with the K-20D? -- 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.
