I've had the same experience with CF cards. As Chuck and others have
pointed out, the CF cards seem pretty resistant to the type of use that
would send an XD card into oblivion. I regularly delete photo files of any
type (jpeg, RAW, TIFF) with the camera and my PC via a card reader with no
thought of re-formatting and no problems. The only time I will format with
the camera is if I have used a CF card to store any other type of data.
Charlie
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I erase, format, selective erase (oh no!) and just plain mutilate my poor
> CF
> cards in the E-1 and A1 cameras. I guess some makers got things right as I
> don't run into problems except for this one odd thing that afflicts the
> E-1.
> I believe that erasing, instead of formating between dumps is ok if the
> file-sizes are static. For example, my E-1 RAW files are all exactly the
> same size. No fragmenting occurs. However, JPEG files are variable sized.
> Whether this has anything to do with the price of tea in China, I have no
> clue.
>
> AG
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