traveler90712 Loc: Lake Worth, Fl.

Is anyone using micro SD card and adapters in their cameras?
Good points (besides cost)?
Bad points?

Indi Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.

There shouldn't be any difference that I know of. MicroCenter in Westbury, is giving away your choice of a free card* until tomorrow, June 6.
I think it's a regular CF card, SD card, or a Micro SD card.
You will probably need the coupon they mailed, but you might be able to get it by smiling.
I got the micro SD card yesterday. It's MicroCenter branded.
Wish I could get you the 2 guest cards that came with it.

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

I've used them because on my last vacation I wanted to review my photos on a small tablet I took along. It only had a micro SD slot in it. That worked out OK. No problems with anything. I believe that I read somewhere that using an adapter slows down the write speed of the micro SD, but I never put that to the test and didn't notice it with my 6D, but I didn't do much burst shooting either.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

I'm curious. Why do you want to?

Old Grey Beard Loc: Salt Lake City, Utah

My question also

traveler90712 Loc: Lake Worth, Fl.

Because I am just curious. Maybe use as a fall back if necessary.

Old Grey Beard Loc: Salt Lake City, Utah

:thumbup:

pecohen Loc: Central Maine

I was going to say much the same thing.

Technology puts more bytes on smaller chips as time goes on so the same amount of memory can go into ever smaller cards. I think with the micro SD cards we've about reached the lower limit of what size cards we humans (who do anything but get smaller over time) want to handle, but aside from that practicality there should be no problem with using the physically smaller cards.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I've used them in several devices without a problem, but I don't like them. There's such a thing as too small.

Slovikbear Loc: Northeast PA

I've used them quite a bit and they worked fine, but sometimes the little locking lever is a pain. I'll have it in the un-locked position then as I'm inserting the card/adapter into the device the lever slides to the locked position.

blackest Loc: Ireland

The main good point has to be they can be put into devices which do not have a SD card slot (but do have a microsd slot) or the ability to attach a card reader. Many smart phones come in to that category. So if you have your camera and a smart phone, you could take the card put it in your phone and then use the phone to upload the images say to google photo's maybe. Many cafe's coffee shops even McDonalds have free wifi.

Bad point they are so small it's easy to lose them, they are pretty anonymous too a full size sd card you probably can recognise from a few feet away with the microsd card a 256mb card looks just like your 32gb card until you pick it up and examine it.

Another possible plus the card in your phone can be a second card if you fill the one in your camera and don't have another spare to hand.

If you have a tablet or large phone you can get the images on there and see them at larger resolutions than on the camera, some tablets have hdmi output but even without that with a chromecast or similar you can easily put your photo's or video's on to a tv screen.

A little less fiddly might be to use a wireless sd card to make the link from camera to phone or tablet. I could see this being useful on a trip or holiday where you don't want to lug a laptop around or leave it in the car while you go for a walk. Would be handy if you could get a usb charger for camera batteries but there are inverters which can provide mains voltages that just plug into a cars lighter/accessory socket so you can recharge while you are driving.

Billbobboy42 Loc: Center of Delmarva

I am using them on devices that only accept the micro. For me, the standard SD is the smallest I prefer to handle. One jammed in a tablet and was never able to remove it; think I got fat fingered and inserted it incorrectly
:-( .

insman1132 Loc: Southwest Florida

I use them sometimes. No problems yet.

avengine

micro SD will become more popular when Android M operation system become the standard, since it will let all the smartphone to load app on the micro sd and also data become more portable.
wifi sd is still expensive, but I do hope they will drop in price soon.

ralphc4176 Loc: Conyers, GA

I don't, mainly because I have a lot of trouble handling the small size. Even regular SD cards are difficult for me to handle--I much prefer CF cards, but not all of my cameras will accept CF.