Just call me Mr. Fixit or Mr. Glue. I will attempt to fix anything with nails, screws, rivets, stove bolts, cotter pins, staples, and tape. I'm on my 3rd bottle of Gorilla Glue. Oh, that is, anything but cameras and lenses. Glue on a memory card that you actually insert in a camera- REALLY? Forgetaboutit! Toss it and get a new card! If any of that stuff flakes off and gets into your camera, you'll have a repair bill that will far exceed the cost of several new cards. Imagine if the glue ain't quite dry and the card gets stuck in the slot after the glue hardens or expands.

Compare to the ongoing cost of film and even basic processing in the olden days, cards are your cheapest commodity. I keep a dozen of them on-hand and rotate them- they last for years. If there's any sign of deformation, excessive wear, damage, or poor contact in the reader- out they go. Besides potential damage to your camera, a makeshift repaired card can fail and cost you good photo ops.

You have a multi-thousand-dollar camera- you're gonna mess with a delaminated card- I hope not!

I have as SD card reader built into my computer. Yesterday, I took the card out of my camera, inserted it in the slot on the computer, and dowloaded the photos to my computer. As I was inserting the card back into the camera, somehow, I noticed that the card appeared to be separating into two halves. Sure enough, I checked it, and it was separating. I don't know when it started separating, but I was thinking, it would be a shame to go out on a photo shoot, take photos all day long, and find out the card was defective. Now, yes, I have dual card slots, and I can code the second card slot as backup, but, still, I will, every time I remove the card from my camera, give it a careful visual inspection before reinserting it into the camera.

On July 17, 1968, I arrived in Atsugi, Japan, on my way to DaNang, RVN. I’d done a lot of research, so I went immediately to the NX and handed over $121.00 for a Nikkormat ftn. I shot with that until 1987, when I switched to a N8008. From there I’ve moved to an N90, a D1, a D200, a D300, and a D800e. I don’t have any plan to move away from the D800e as my primary camera; there isn’t a thing I want to do that I can’t do with it.

One other note, in December of 2012, my youngest son told me he wanted to start shooting seriously. I told him I had a D300 in good shape that I’d give to him. He said, “No, I want to start like you did. I want a Nikkormat.” I said “Fine, don’t do anything.” I went to eBay, found a good Nikkormat, and had it sent to him. About a week later, before he could see a single image from the camera, he passed away. Our last conversation, two nights before his passing, we talked only of photography and his camera.