Ordering New SD Cards (Page 4): Adapters are notoriously unreliable. My son had one apparent Micro SD adapter failure, trying to download an event job he could not re-do. Fortunately...

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

jerryc41 wrote:

Those MicroSD cards are generally reviled, and for good reason. I don't know how many times I've ejected one and had it shoot off somewhere. My only failed cards were Micros.

Adapters are notoriously unreliable. My son had one apparent Micro SD adapter failure, trying to download an event job he could not re-do. Fortunately, it wasn't a wedding!

Micro SD makes sense in some devices, but only if you don't need the adapter. I have a reader that natively reads both full size and micro SDXC cards in all flavors. It has read that Micro SD card that did not read with its original adapter! So no data was lost, after all. But we no longer use Micro SD for anything. If the adapter failed in the reader, it could fail in the camera.

Bill_de Loc: US

[quote=jerryc41][i]["A reviewer mentioned that his camera (Zfc?)..."[/i]

The Zf has the MicroSD.[/quote]

Thanks!

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burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Bill_de wrote:

Thanks!

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Then I would urge anyone with a Zf to use a reader specifically made for Micro SD cards. Avoid the adapters like the plague.

Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

Where do I store my photos?....its a problem every photographer grapples with!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Doddy wrote:

Where do I store my photos?....its a problem every photographer grapples with!

I don't...
I store them on a hard drive in the computer......
(Of course they are backed up, to external hard drives and the cloud.)

Bill_de Loc: US

Longshadow wrote:

I don't...
I store them on a hard drive in the computer......
(Of course they are backed up, to external hard drives and the cloud.)

You finished all your grappling.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Bill_de wrote:

You finished all your grappling.

Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

The adaptor has no moving parts. It's a physical connection with pins touching pins.
All my adaptors from SanDisk are interchangeably

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Sidwalkastronomy wrote:

The adaptor has no moving parts. It's a physical connection with pins touching pins.
All my adaptors from SanDisk are interchangeably

All mine work fine...

flyboy61 Loc: The Great American Desert

Longshadow wrote:

Some of my cards are over 15 years old.
They will work until they don't, just like everything else.
I do have spare cards though, primarily for using for pictures, if and when I fill cards.

My 12+ year old cameras only have one slot.
I guess I'm SOL

Maybe I should get another camera in case one breaks.
Not.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

jerryc41 wrote:

The only memory cards that have failed on me have ... (show quote)

I’m not sure why people do this. With my 5D I have two slots for memory cards. Every now and then I head over to B&H and buy two or more SD cards and CF cards. I prefer to have an extra set lying around. I am not fond of formatting and re-formatting cards.

ronpier Loc: Poland Ohio

Scruples wrote:

I’m not sure why people do this. With my 5D I have two slots for memory cards. Every now and then I head over to B&H and buy two or more SD cards and CF cards. I prefer to have an extra set lying around. I am not fond of formatting and re-formatting cards.

I keep a large supply of 2,4 and 8gb cards on hand along with my normal 16 gb cards. Why? Because they are hard to find and many of my cameras are older and use the small cards. Since I shook JPEG these sizes are more than adequate.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Scruples wrote:

I’m not sure why people do this. With my 5D I have two slots for memory cards. Every now and then I head over to B&H and buy two or more SD cards and CF cards. I prefer to have an extra set lying around. I am not fond of formatting and re-formatting cards.

Formatting and re-formatting is not an issue AT ALL.

I've formatted cards hundreds of times. On a digital camera, all that happens is that the first few bytes of the file directory are erased. A NEW directory and its associated camera model-specific files and folder structures are written to the card.

Subsequent files are written on top of whatever was there previously, because the operating system of the camera does not see a directory entry indicating that anything important IS there.

This has many benefits. Low-level formatting isn't needed. Old data is still there, so if you format a card accidentally, recovery software can retrieve it if you haven't over-written it with new exposures just yet. There is minuscule wear, since only a few bytes are erased. Data is only written on top of old data.

Modern, name brand cards last many years. We have SDXC cards we use for 4K video. Some of them are eight years old, and they still work fine. My son left one in his jeans and accidentally ran it through the washer and dryer. It was completely intact, with no missing data issues with what he had recorded on it. He downloaded his files, backed them up and checked them, then hit the card with a hammer, so it won't be used again (just in case!).