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

Sat Apr 11 01:31:51 PDT 2015

In my entire dozen year digital experience using 4 DSLR's and  Digilux I've
only had one memory card fail in the first couple of years. I think it was a
250mb. And I had odd brands the first six years I may have even had a Kodak
name on it coming with a camera.  But I've only had less then ten cards
total in all those years. SD and CF.

On 4/11/15 2:23 AM, "Philippe Amard" <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> wrote:

> 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 Š
> 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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