Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greg, The industry reports failure rates over 10% on new cards. This covers all brands. Personally, I use three Lexar 2GB 133's and have no problems with them. They are rotated through the camera and formatted in camera after download and burning to a DVD. I think that if you buy a "name" card in a moderate speed that you use on trash images, download, and format with no problems you can save a bunch of money as the moderate speed cards can be half the price of the bleeding edge speedsters. I buy the fastest cards as they frequently have rebates so the price isn't bad. Currently in my neck of the woods 2 GB SD Lexar 133's are $54.95 with a $20 rebate for a net of 34.95. I have seen at Costco 2GB cards for less than $20 so YMMV. Remember, the camera may not need a fast card but if you download with a card reader the faster card downloads faster as well. Less time waiting may be a good or bad thing depending on your coffee pot. On 9/4/07, Greg Rubenstein <gcr910@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > Any thoughts about the most reliable/best 2 gig card for a Leica? How > about Calumet's house-brand cards? Will use them in a D-Lux 3. Have a few > Sandisk cards which, even after formatting, have proved moderately reliable > . . . most of the time. On- or off-list comments welcome. > > Thank you. > > Greg Rubenstein > _________________________________________________________________ > Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger > > http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=wlmailtagline > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com