Jbennett68
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Bought a nice looking M Type 240 from Tim Lei last night. Should be in Memphis tomorrow hopefully. Should be a good less expensive way to get my feet wet in digital.
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Tim is an excellent source. 🙂
wlewisiii
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And the M 240 is an excellent choice. All of my shots in the Sonnar Shot a Day thread are with mine.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
I have one. It is like the sheepherder and the Border Collie. The dog is smarter. The 240 is a good camera and has that whopping big battery. A spare is a good idea. I like the color as I am an Agfachrome guy. All in all, a good camera. And you can make an SLR out of it with the EVF. The Leica one is too expensive. The other is an Olympus VF-2 and the same EVF, just a different name. Happy shooting.
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Jbennett68
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He was pretty helpful and patient. I didn't know he was as well respected as he is and I was skeptical of the posts on Facebook at first. But he put up with my messages and questions until I pulled the trigger. Tried to buy and M10-P a few days before and it sold literally while we were messaging. Glad I didn't spend quite that much now. Maybe those prices will be down more next year and I'll get the black M10-P or R that I was drooling over.
Jbennett68
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raid
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Congratulations! Now use the camera and show us results. [no pressure]
Jbennett68
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This thing is picky with SD cards. The ones I have here are 10+ years old used in my Pentax dslr. It’s giving me fits with those cards. I’ve got a new one coming tomorrow that I hope resolves the freezing up issues I’m having.
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wlewisiii
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Not particularly fussy for me.
I have an "Infinitive" SDHC 32 gb card. No clue who actually made it. Used it in my D810, works fine in my 240 and I plan to put it in my K5 when it arrives on Monday
My main one in my 240 is a Lexar SDXC V30 633x 64 gb than someone left at the hotel and never claimed till it was going to be thrown away. I snarfed it at that point. I would never spend that much on one though.
These are my favorites: SanDisk Flash 16 GB SDHC Flash Memory Card SDSDB-016G (search for that on Amazon, the link I tried to post doesn't work)
I have an "Infinitive" SDHC 32 gb card. No clue who actually made it. Used it in my D810, works fine in my 240 and I plan to put it in my K5 when it arrives on Monday
My main one in my 240 is a Lexar SDXC V30 633x 64 gb than someone left at the hotel and never claimed till it was going to be thrown away. I snarfed it at that point. I would never spend that much on one though.
These are my favorites: SanDisk Flash 16 GB SDHC Flash Memory Card SDSDB-016G (search for that on Amazon, the link I tried to post doesn't work)
Godfrey
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I dont recall which SD card i used in the M-P 240, too long ago now. Whatever it was, i never had any problems with that.
I think a modern, 64-128G card is probably a better bet. That and using the SD card formatter app on your desktop computer to set up the card in the first place. (I'll send a link when i get back home. I'm walking with my latest acquisition at present...🙃)
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I think a modern, 64-128G card is probably a better bet. That and using the SD card formatter app on your desktop computer to set up the card in the first place. (I'll send a link when i get back home. I'm walking with my latest acquisition at present...🙃)
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Godfrey
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... The SD Card Formatter app is available free of charge from SD Memory Card Formatter for Windows/Mac | SD Association
It's always a good idea to format your SD cards before use with it, and then using the in-camera formatting utility afterwards. The SD Card Organization does the best, cleanest format you can do; better than any in-camera formatter I've seen.
I have a Lexar 1000x 128Gbyte SD card in my M10-M and a SanDisk Extreme Pro 128Gbyte SD card in my M10-R. They've been in these cameras since I got them, and allow a vast number of exposures before needing to be emptied and reformatted. Never a single problem with either... and they're only about $25 apiece. 🙂 Same cards are in my Hasselblad 907x and Olympus E-M1 as well.
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It's always a good idea to format your SD cards before use with it, and then using the in-camera formatting utility afterwards. The SD Card Organization does the best, cleanest format you can do; better than any in-camera formatter I've seen.
I have a Lexar 1000x 128Gbyte SD card in my M10-M and a SanDisk Extreme Pro 128Gbyte SD card in my M10-R. They've been in these cameras since I got them, and allow a vast number of exposures before needing to be emptied and reformatted. Never a single problem with either... and they're only about $25 apiece. 🙂 Same cards are in my Hasselblad 907x and Olympus E-M1 as well.
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wlewisiii
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Honestly, I wouldn't use that big of a card in a 240 and I download off of mine daily. I have lost photos to bad cards more than once and don't trust cards. That's why I suggest 16 or 32 gb cards instead. I only have that 64 gb card because it was free.
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
What Leica says, always a good starting point: Storage medium SD cards up to 2 GB / SDHC cards up to 32 GB /SDXC cards.
Godfrey
somewhat colored
I've been using 64 and 128 G SD type cards for over a decade, once the price got down into a reasonable range. I think these SDXC cards are actually more reliable than than the older, smaller card series. I'm sure I used at least 64G cards back in my M-P 240 and M-D 262 days ... that wasn't so long ago.
I download all my day's session exposures every day after the session from the 128 G cards in the M10-M/-R. I leave all the exposures on the card too ... they become an invisible backup and there in case I want to move and process any of my exposures in the field or when on travel. Right now, the M10-M card has about 590 DNG files on it (about 40Mbytes each, give or take), and 980 MBytes of free space. I last archived it in its entirety on April 7, what's on there now is everything since then.
I love having just the one card to manage for each camera.
But whatever works for you and that you are comfortable with, go right ahead.
I'm just recommending what I know has worked perfectly for me.
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I download all my day's session exposures every day after the session from the 128 G cards in the M10-M/-R. I leave all the exposures on the card too ... they become an invisible backup and there in case I want to move and process any of my exposures in the field or when on travel. Right now, the M10-M card has about 590 DNG files on it (about 40Mbytes each, give or take), and 980 MBytes of free space. I last archived it in its entirety on April 7, what's on there now is everything since then.
I love having just the one card to manage for each camera.
But whatever works for you and that you are comfortable with, go right ahead.
I'm just recommending what I know has worked perfectly for me.
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rodgersfoto
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Godfrey- Thanks for the link and info about it. Been using digital since Nikon 5700. Never heard / knew about the tool on your link. Have bookmarked it and after a bit more info about it will decide about using it.
Thanks again,
fotorr
Thanks again,
fotorr
CP93
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Having lost pictures from the HD due to user stupidity, I have started saving cards as an extra archive.
Jbennett68
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New Sandisc extreme pro 64 GB sd card came. Works perfectly now. The Leica just didn’t like the other ones at all but they seem to work fine in the dslr. Go figure.
