[Leica] New M8 firmware

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Ted I at one point a year ago bought a 4 gig sd card for my D40x at a Best
Buy as I was walking by as it was going for the chump change in my back
pocket. Less than a 100 bucks for sure. That sure gave me another excuse to
use that camera. Several more times shots on a roll makes me reach for it.
But that's my cheap camera. By good main camera is the D200 which uses the
bigger in size compact flash cards.
So I thinks to myself I thinks a couple of months ago......
"why not see what these Compact cards cost as they're cheaper per gig than
SD cards anyway and the D200 is my main ax and I deserve a break because I'm
a very nice person and should have more on a roll on my main ax"
As for 99 bucks I'd buy anything.
Well they were so cheap I got the 8 gig instead of the 4 gig.
Now the 8 gigs are going for 40 bucks at B&H! Or 80 usd if you want extreme
and I don't even know what extreme means. I thought it was riding bikes in
the mud.
You could use those 8's for your Canons,

The SanDisk 4GB Secure Digital (SDHC) Cards are going for 20 bucks now at
B&H. Pure Cane Camera.


The Future has already happened!





mark@rabinergroup.com
Mark William Rabiner



> From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:01:26 -0700
> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] New M8 firmware
> 
> 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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