On 3/22/2013 6:34 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
> Well, we are back from our whilrwind trip to Gibraltar, Morocco, and Spain
> and I'm downloading the photos now. The biggest lesson I learned this trip
> was to never again travel without a computer! ...
> I missed having the opportunity to download photos and review them
> at night before taking more the next day. My little Acer netbook would not
> have been much larger than the Kindle and I could have used it for
> downloading photos, too. I also missed the security of making two copies
> to keep in different locations which I usually do on trips.
I am regularly mystified by people who make such decisions. I always take my
little Acer along, as well as an external
drive I keep in a different part of my luggage. I like downloading and viewing;
however brief, it lets me know
everything worked. I CAN do email on my iPhone5, and web stuff, but it is SO
much nicer on the computer. For longer
trips, and we are gone for a month or more at least once a year, being able to
manage my financial affairs while on the
road is crucial. Again I CAN do that stuff on the phone, but it's painful.
> I thought for such a short
> trip, I would just take lots of SD cards and my Kindle to check e-mail.
> Big mistake! I had bought 4 32GB Transcend cards and they did NOT work.
> They would work fine for awhile and then get hung up on data transfer for
> hours. I would have to take the battery and card out to get them to work
> again and then half the time it would tell me I had no photos on the card
> when I actually had several hundred. I quit using those and only had my
> old, smaller cards to use.
This is almost certainly not related to the brand of card. I guess you don't
keep up with what Leica is saying. Why they
wouldn't personally warn an everyday registered user, I don't know; why not an
eminent user, I really can't imagine.
Here's one thing they had to say.
"08/08/2011 -- Leica Camera has recently become aware of customers experiencing
compatibility issues related to select
types of new memory cards when used in the Leica M9. The misbehavior occurs in
very limited cases (<0.1% of total No. of
sold M9/M9-P), but because it is associated with the loss of images, we want to
point out the potential risk for our
customers." They go on to say most trouble at that time was with San disks.
<http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1312837892.html>
With a 2010 firmware update, Leica issued a list of known compatible SDHC
cards, including the Transcend 32GB class6.
<http://www.dpreview.com/news/2010/3/15/leicam9firmware>
For a while, Transcend was the leader in price/performance away from the
leading edge of performance; may still be. I
have 2x 8GB class 6 and a bunch of class 10s, 1x 8GB, 2x 16GB and 2x 32GB.
Although I haven't kept track, the smaller
cards have worked flawlessly in various cameras and the 32GB cards in Canon 60D
and Oly E-M5, right up to full.
As the E-M5 supports UHS-1, and B&H had a good sale, I now have a couple of
Sony 32GB, class10, UHS-1 cards. I have only
briefly tried one, not enough to tell if write times are improved, but they are
"supposed to", and some web folks claim
it's true.
Entertainingly, in one of the long running, never resolved questions on the
web, Leica carefully advises never
reformatting a card. Latest received wisdom in a recent TOP post/discussion,
from Kingston, is to always reformat in the
camera, rather than just erase.
I think the only meaningful conclusion from personal experience and the length
of time the matter has remained
unresolved in any consistent way - is that it just doesn't matter.
High Capacity Moose
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