[Leica] New M8 firmware

[len-001 at verizon.net (Leonard Taupier)]

Ted,

Your dealer was right. Unless they sell Transend 4 G cards, just  
about every other 4 G card is SDHC which would not work.

Len


On Sep 9, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Alastair Firkin offered:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] New M8 firmware
>
>>>> As long as the bloody things work: I've just had a 4G card fail  
>>>> at a
> wedding: lost over 50% of the images, so perhaps having smaller  
> cards and
> lots of them might be not such a bad idea :-(<<<<<
>
> Hi Alastair,
>
> Last week I had a medical shoot for two days and figured it would  
> be easier
> to purchase a 4 GIG card and put the works on one card.
>
> When I asked at my local photo shop, the staff only deal with  
> professional
> photogs and are right up on the latest digital info.
>
> Immediate response was.. " A 4 GIG card isn't recommended for the  
> Leica M8!"
> And that was before she went to check on the internet to verify the
> information. She had read about 4 GIG card failures the week before  
> with
> Leica M8's, so my question twigged her response immediately. So at the
> moment I use 2 GIG but there are times having a 4 or bigger would  
> be great.
>
>  Beat part of this is having store staff more interested in looking  
> after
> their clients than making a sale and ticking them off.
>
> However if there's up grade to use larger cards that's fine by me.
>
> Ted
>
>
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