Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/21

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Subject: [Leica] M8 and San Disk Ultra II 2.0 GB cards
From: telyt at telus.net (David Young)
Date: Sun Jan 21 06:32:46 2007

At 21/01/2007, you wrote:
>Dear Luggers,
>My M8 and me, we are getting on quite well. I'm having more trouble
>wrestling with Capture One LE to make sense out of RAW and turning to
>Silky Pix as being easier and more intuitive. One puzzle which has
>cropped up is that RAW or JPEG photos recorded on San Disk Ultra II
>cards with 2 GB capacity by the M8 won't read on my card reader. When
>this first happened I thought the card was defective and took it back
>to my photo dealer and exchanged it. Same thing happened with the
>replacement. I can download images from the camera recorded on the 2
>GB card by plugging in the camera so the recording is okay - it is
>just the playback via card reader which doesn't work. Tried another
>card reader - same story - so it doesn't seem to be the reader. All
>my other SD cards of various brands are 1 GB and all work fine -
>reading through the USB 2.0 reader. Anyone else having this experience?
>Any ideas about overcoming this reluctance to read?
>Cheers
>Howard (off to India in the morning)



Hi Howard!

Admittedly, I use my SanDisk Ultra II 2GB cards in my DMR, but they 
read just fine with the inexpensive HAMA USB2.0 / 9 in 1 Card reader.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hama-Digital-Card-Reader-USB/dp/B0002W6DRA

Good Luck! And, have fun in India!

Cheers!

---

David Young,
Logan Lake, CANADA

Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/
Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt





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