Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jun 25, 2006, at 10:26 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > None of my cameras has ever been connected to a computer, and none > ever will. I don't even know where the cables are. The only safe > procedure is to use a card reader, copy the files to the computer, > check that they copied OK, and only then delete the files on the > card (using the computer). I then always reformat the card when I > put it back into the camera. As previously posted, and with all respect to Nathan, my experience is exactly the opposite. I buy the largest card I can afford (a 4 gig yesterday), plop it in the camera, and then never remove it. I have also never lost a digital image in six plus years of digital shooting, and three plus years exclusively and professionally digital. I use Macs, and most of my cameras use the compact flash cards. These cards have little, dinky holes in them and it takes just a small amount of dust to block one hole enough to render the card flakey or useless. SD and XD memory have larger, open connections, and presumable would be less affected by this. Will von Dauster