Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/23

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Subject: [Leica] memory cards
From: jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)
Date: Sat Sep 23 12:02:15 2006
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2006-09-23-13:01:47 Brian Reid:
> There's no law that says you have to fill a memory card,

Exactly.

> There are some software issues with cards bigger than 2GB on many cameras. 
> And 2GB is currently the sweet-spot in price.

Not just price, but speed.  The bigger-than-2G cards need to be
formatted with a different flavor of MS-DOS(!) filesystem than the 2G
and smaller ones, which partially explains both the speed and the
compatibility differences.

You can get hard numbers at the really handy Galbraith card-and-camera
card bandwidth database:

  http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007
In reply to: Message from bwdaly at gmail.com (brad daly) ([Leica] memory cards)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] memory cards)