[Leica] SD card malfunction

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I though everybody like myself after feeding my card into my hard disk
formatted it after it went back into the camera. I kind of thought that was
the obvious workflow. I've been doing this with all my cards for tens of
thousands of exposures since 2006 and I don't think ever had a card go out
on me.

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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:54:46 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] SD card malfunction
> 
> I'm not sure why you need to format an SD after just 60 images.  It will
> hold far more than that.  In fact, since 4 gig HD cards have gone so
> inexpensive, I'm just filling them nearly up, backing them up, and putting
> them on the shelf as a backup.
> 
> My experience with recycling digital media is not good after several
> formatings.
> 
> SD cards are far cheaper to save than negatives, and they are nearly
> bulletproof from physical damage, but electrical damage can be accomplished
> pretty easily.
> 
> Let the write finish before you turn off the camera. Don't format it many
> times.  Don't run it through the washing machine too many times.
> 
> If it separates into two parts, use only high quality scotch tape to put it
> back together.  (Really)