[Leica] SD Card Questions, M(240) International Gearhead Edition

[Philippe]

Sold my D700 with its cards last month - 6 of them - as many brands as you'd wish to find in Europe or the US. 
Only one ever failed over the time I had the camera, 
it was a …
Kodak
which robbed me of my colours,
RIP

Amities
Ph


Le 11 avr. 2015 à 04:03, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> a écrit :

> Just in case someone is interested as I know D700's are not uncommon on the
> LUG my year old 60mb's fast card listed below  from last year is not made
> any more. They are 160mb's fast now and cost a bit less,  50 bucks instead
> of 60. That's the 16gb card.  The word is out that the camera itself only
> writes to 25 or 35 mb's per second. So it would seem to be a waste of money.
> Any of it.  But I think it would still work. And somehow it just might be a
> good thing. 
> Driving a Ferrari 25mph is a good thing right?
> 
> 
> On 4/10/15 9:48 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> On my DSLR I use a SanDisk Extreme 60mb's 16GB UDMA card it takes a licken and
>> keeps on ticken. The first real money I ever spent on a card I think it was 60
>> bucks a year ago.
>> My camera really seems spunkier. Seems quite self assured. I think its
>> happier. I had a cheap card which made me turn off and on the camera. And it
>> wasn't red it was green. Not a good color for cards.
>> I'm sticking with red SanDisk cards for now on.
>> 
>> People on Nikon lists say  " Supported is different than working."
>> My camera supposedly doesn't "support" a 16GB card. A fact that had I known
>> that when I bought this for 60 bucks would have worried me. Despite all these
>> people saying that everybody they know uses 16 and 32 gb cards in their
>> D700's. Now I am part of that "everybody" as its been a year.
>> But I'm not getting a 32 gb card as I cant fell this 16gb card.
>> I bet this same card if its made now cost half as much as in 30 bucks......
>> (he's checking)
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/10/15 9:31 PM, "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have used the Sandisk Ultra cards and can tell no difference from any
>>> other SD card, including the Transcend cards that I usually use.  Maybe I
>>> don't shoot as many bursts and don't need as much speed as others might,
>>> but I have found that a normal SD card works just as well as any of the
>>> super, ultra, extreme, or high speed ones do.  But then I have never run
>>> into a bottleneck problem with any card.
>>> 
>>> Tina
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I 'm sorry to post this again because I suspect it has been discussed but
>>>> inasmuch as neither the LUG Search function nor my internal memory function
>>>> are working very well I'll have to.
>>>> 
>>>> I see that Leica suggests Sandisk Ultra or Extreme Class 10 SD cards with
>>>> speeds >30 MB/s.  http://content.abt.com/documents/54249/LEICAM_FAQ.pdf
>>>> 
>>>> There are some folks on another well known Leica forum who say the speed -
>>>> both waking and shooting - is noticeably better with the latest and fastest
>>>> cards, which have maximum speeds of 95 MB/s.  I have also seen posters in
>>>> various forii say they get faster speeds with 16GB cards than they do with
>>>> 32GB cards.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm just curious to know if any LUGers have discerned - when shooting with
>>>> an M (240) or an M-P (240) - noticeably faster speeds or any other
>>>> _noticeable_  advantage to using 60 MB/s versus 95 MB/s SD cards, and also
>>>> any _noticeable_ speed difference when using 16GB, 32GB or larger cards.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> --Bob
>>>> 
>>>> p.s. Uncle Dr. Ted is certainly free to ignore this thread.  ;-)
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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