[Leica] M8 and SD cards

[clive.moss at gmail.com (Clive Moss)]

So, in the interest of science, I put the M8 into continuous shooting 
and held down the shutter release to see how fast the Lexar Professional 
133x card is. After eight shots, it stopped. Dead. I mean, lifeless, no 
LCD, nothing. Well, time to reboot. Remove and reinsert battery. Remove 
and reinsert card. Nothing happens. Still dead. Take the CD card and 
read it on the computer, ready to reformat. Card is fine, has all the 
images on it. But wait, thought says to me. The battery was on 1 bar 
last night - maybe try another battery. Pop in fresh battery. Works 
fine. The first battery did not have enough juice to even light up the 
display of battery level; I would have expected the internal battery to 
do something, not just sit there with a dead camera.
It should have told me that the battery was dead.

Does anyone from Leica monitor this list, or do I need to go and mumble 
somewhere else?
--
Clive
http://www.clive.moss.net/blog/




on 3/23/2007 11:57 PM Wade Heninger said the following:
...
> I find that I hit the buffer all the time with my regular Kingston 2 gb SD
> cards.  They are not accelerated and for the shooting I'm doing now, I'm
> going to need to replace them.
> 
> The transcend 4gb card works pretty good.  I get about 10 shots before it
> starts to act up.  The Kingston cards give me 3 or 4 and are glacial about
> write times compared to the transcends.  It can take 20 or 30 seconds to
> clear
...