[Leica] SD Memory Cards for M8

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 10:49 PM +0000 2/16/07, grduprey@mchsi.com wrote:
>Alastair,
>
>Thanks for the info.  I bought a 2G SanDisk Extreme III card.  I 
>also ogrdered a second battery when I ordered the M8.  The first is 
>now charged and the second is charging.
>
>Gene
>
>-------------- Original message from Alastair Firkin 
><firkin@ncable.net.au>: --------------
>
>
>>
>>  On 15/02/2007, at 6:48, Tina Manley wrote:
>>
>>  > At 11:31 AM 2/14/2007, you wrote:
>>  >> What is everyone using for SD memory cards? I am thinking 2G or
>  > >> possibly 4G.

I had a Sandisk Ultra II 2Gb which I used initially. They cost around 
$80 Canadian around here. I also had a cheap 'PNY' 1Gb, so I tried 
that. Worked fine, and the speed difference in writing to the card 
was 1 or maybe 2 sec. total when putting the camera on continuous, 
letting it shoot until the buffer was full (11 shots) and letting it 
flush the buffer to the card. So, essentially no speed difference. 
Since Best Buy had a deal of $49 Cdn for 2 - 2Gb 'PNY' cards, I 
bought those.

I have no idea what the PNY cards are rated at, but they work fine 
and are very cheap. I'll spend the money if I can see a performance 
difference, but if there is none I'll spend the saved money on 
another filter.

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