[Leica] Anybody with an actual M9 have experience with largefast cards?

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

If you are shooting uncompressed (14 bit)  18mp DNGs the files are 34.7MB
each on the card. Interestingly, importing them with LR3 will losslessly
compress those (both the original and second copy) to ~18MB on your
computer/external drive.
I use all 4GB cards on the M8 as my choice and found the almost 400 frames
per card practical with the M8 when travelling and shooting a lot. I think
that 16GB cards will become the new 4GB for me.
Keep in mind that you will need to change the battery periodically (expected
400~500 exposures dependant on your style), so in my opinion it is better to
align the card change with that operation if you have a heavy shooting
schedule. For cost and risk reasons also, in my opinion 16GB is the best
choice.  For less demandig situations, around 90 frames on a 4GB card is
pretty useful anyway. I think that 32GB is the highest supported in the SDHC
standard. Someone will correct me if that's out of date. Write speeds may
see some improvements when firmware updates become available in the future.
2009/11/8 Bryan Willman <bryanwi at bryanwi.com>

> I have never had a card fail.   I have had computers crash and nearly
> lose data after cards are off loaded.   I often have a hard time keeping
> track of too many small things.
>
> So my theory is to have, say, 4 very large cards.  (at least 16gb, but
> 64gb if the M9 works with them.)   Then, on a long trip (say 2 weeks in
> Europe), you shoot quite freely, but NEVER reuse/reformat a card.
> After off loading, don't reformat the cards until your various backup
> processes are confirmed to have worked.
>
> So one wants to carry enough cards to cover all of the shooting for any
> trip without needing to delete anything from a card.   (Copy to disk if
> possible just to have a backup)   Digital cameras -> lots of exposures
> (because we can.)   Rather than carrying 16 by 16gb cards, would rather
> carry 4 64gb cards.
>
> The reason I raise the question is that my M8 originally couldn't cope
> with SDHC cards, and was effectively limited to 2GB.   Does the M9 have
> such a disease?  Will it work reliably with 64gb cards?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bryanwi=bryanwi.com at leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bryanwi <lug-bounces%2Bbryanwi>=bryanwi.com@
> leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Frank Filippone
> Sent: 2009-Nov-07 4:44 PM
> To: 'Leica Users Group'
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Anybody with an actual M9 have experience with
> largefast cards?
>
> There are 2 ways to go.. get the biggest card you can, or get a bunch of
> smaller ones....
>
> Advantage to the big card:  It holds more.  At 18MB per snap, there are
> roughly 3200 full RAW images you can store on a 64GB card.....But it
> takes
> longer to format, delete a bunch, etc.  and if it goes south, you lose
> it
> all.
> Advantage to the smaller cards..... They hold less.  You will not be as
> exposed should you lose a card or it goes south on you.....But then you
> must
> store a bunch of cards.  The cards being pretty tiny, this should not be
> as
> big a deal as it was with film.
>
> I am really interested.......Why go big card?  What other advantages do
> you
> see?
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i at earthlink.net
>
>
> What I'm really asking is - what is the biggest, fastest, SD card that
> is "safe" to buy for the M9?
>
> thx
> bmw
>
>
>
>
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