Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have never had a card fail. I have had computers crash and nearly lose data after cards are off loaded. I often have a hard time keeping track of too many small things. So my theory is to have, say, 4 very large cards. (at least 16gb, but 64gb if the M9 works with them.) Then, on a long trip (say 2 weeks in Europe), you shoot quite freely, but NEVER reuse/reformat a card. After off loading, don't reformat the cards until your various backup processes are confirmed to have worked. So one wants to carry enough cards to cover all of the shooting for any trip without needing to delete anything from a card. (Copy to disk if possible just to have a backup) Digital cameras -> lots of exposures (because we can.) Rather than carrying 16 by 16gb cards, would rather carry 4 64gb cards. The reason I raise the question is that my M8 originally couldn't cope with SDHC cards, and was effectively limited to 2GB. Does the M9 have such a disease? Will it work reliably with 64gb cards? -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bryanwi=bryanwi.com at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bryanwi=bryanwi.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank Filippone Sent: 2009-Nov-07 4:44 PM To: 'Leica Users Group' Subject: Re: [Leica] Anybody with an actual M9 have experience with largefast cards? There are 2 ways to go.. get the biggest card you can, or get a bunch of smaller ones.... Advantage to the big card: It holds more. At 18MB per snap, there are roughly 3200 full RAW images you can store on a 64GB card.....But it takes longer to format, delete a bunch, etc. and if it goes south, you lose it all. Advantage to the smaller cards..... They hold less. You will not be as exposed should you lose a card or it goes south on you.....But then you must store a bunch of cards. The cards being pretty tiny, this should not be as big a deal as it was with film. I am really interested.......Why go big card? What other advantages do you see? Frank Filippone red735i at earthlink.net What I'm really asking is - what is the biggest, fastest, SD card that is "safe" to buy for the M9? thx bmw _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information