Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/04

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Subject: [Leica] 8 Gig cards? M8?
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:48:55 -0700
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Yes, but I like having the top counter work, and not have to go to 
playback just to see the framecount. Anyway, 8Gb seems about right to 
me.


At 4:11 PM -0500 6/4/09, Sonny Carter wrote:
>The pictures are numbered on the playback screen.
>
>
>
>On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com> 
>wrote:
>>  Although I have some 16Gb Transcends, I only use the 8Gb cards in the 
>> M8's.
>>  First, I very, very, very rarely take more than 1000 pictures on an 
>> outing
>>  so 740 RAW shots per card is enough, and if it's more casual and I'm only
>>  taking one camera, surely 740 are enough. But more importantly, the 
>> counter
>>  works. Over 1000 it's all the same, so with a 16Gb card I don't know what
>>  number I'm at for the first 400+ shots. With a 32Gb card I'd be shooting 
>> for
>>  days before I got into the counter capable region.
>>

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