SDHC cards

tee hee...i just went down to bestbuy and bought myself a cheap-o 4 gig sdhc card for 19 bucks. 875 jpegs...now I can get two batteries per card.
 
i just gotta offer up a bit of self learned advice. the cheap-o sdhc cards are formatted like poop, i was getting random sd card is full errors when turning on the camera from time to time...read through a few m8 pdfs from leicas website and it said format the card to FAT (not FAT32 or any other nonsense...the regular, plain old FAT format) I have since had no errors.
 
plummerl said:
Check out the current SanDisk rebate offer through Adorama: http://www.adorama.com/IDSSD4GE3.html (Rebate offer: http://www.adorama.com/pdfs/rebates/sandiskx_101108.pdf). I picked up two 8GB Extreme III CF (not SDHC) last night (already shipped) for after rebate price of $19.90 (free shipping). Prices for SDHC are a bit more: two 8GB Extreme III for $38).
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Sandisk is announcing a newer, faster, bigger SD card, which generally drives down the prices on the "old" ones, have had no complaints on these cards.

I think I have the package of a 128 M XD card that cost me more than $100, and a month ago these were the prices of 2GB cards.

Thanks for the heads up.

John
 
tmfabian said:
i just gotta offer up a bit of self learned advice. the cheap-o sdhc cards are formatted like poop, i was getting random sd card is full errors when turning on the camera from time to time...read through a few m8 pdfs from leicas website and it said format the card to FAT (not FAT32 or any other nonsense...the regular, plain old FAT format) I have since had no errors.
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Do you recommend to format every new card in the camera or computer?

John
 
JohnTF said:
Do you recommend to format every new card in the camera or computer?

John
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computer... formating in the camera brings the error back. formatting it in the computer doesn't exactly fix the problem but it makes it useable. instead of getting an sd card full error and not being able to take a picture, the frame counter shows up as 999, but you can still take pictures and after you take a picture the counter becomes accurate.

Oh and do it in a PC, my mac apparently isn't capable of formatting to a FAT system properly as the error comes back when formatted in a mac.

Once I format the card on the PC, I only ever use the delete all files procedure with this card and not format card in the camera menus.
 
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ok, forget what I said...my experience with an SDHC card in the m8 officially is absolutely abysmal. Don't bother, even after futzing around with my card to try to make it happy with my m8 it still fails. Back to plain old SD cards until the next firmware.
 
tmfabian said:
ok, forget what I said...my experience with an SDHC card in the m8 officially is absolutely abysmal. Don't bother, even after futzing around with my card to try to make it happy with my m8 it still fails. Back to plain old SD cards until the next firmware.
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I tried to use my Laptop with the SD card slot to format, and the only option was Fat32. There is always my desktop. Camera is just back from Leica service.

Regards, John
 
JohnTF said:
I tried to use my Laptop with the SD card slot to format, and the only option was Fat32. There is always my desktop. Camera is just back from Leica service.

Regards, John
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let me know if you have any issues...perhaps my sdhc card I bought just sucks, which is entirely possible considering it was a cheap-o, but it did work flawlessly for a few hours before I started having issues with it...beats me and good luck and yay for your camera being back.
 
tmfabian said:
let me know if you have any issues...perhaps my sdhc card I bought just sucks, which is entirely possible considering it was a cheap-o, but it did work flawlessly for a few hours before I started having issues with it...beats me and good luck and yay for your camera being back.
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On the repair, so far OK, but they were pretty vague about what they actually did, other than firmware upgrade, cleaning the sensor, checking the meter, am not sure they understood what my concerns were. The meter, as many others, overexposes for dark subjects, and when I corrected the exposure manually, by as little as one stop, the entire image went very, very smurf blue. I do not know whether this is part of the "original sin" in the sensor.

It seems better at first glance, but I see some of the same pastel blue in shadows, but if it cannot be corrected in the hardware, I will either have to live with it, correct in post, or sell the camera.

My dealer feels that anything that is a "mistake" in the original design should be upgraded under warranty, or for a nominal charge, I do not think thousands of bucks is nominal. I am still seeing if I can figure the frame lines, I never had much trouble with the other M's or my Contax.

Perhaps I should make a pest of myself with service?

Re: the card, no matter how cheap, (I suspect they are all very cheap to make, cannot imagine how an 8 g card actually costs more to make than a 4 g, but what do I know, all companies seem to progress to higher capacities at a similar pace) -- the card should at the very least work, I would tend to avoid this card? at least you know the card is failing?

Leica did recommend certain cards for 4 g with the old firmware, Hama? which I could not find. Common enough brand in Czech Republic and probably Germany.

All of the larger cards up to 16 GB seem to work, well, this week. ;-)

I do not know enough to know if the specs. differ in any significant way between makers. Have a tech friend I will try to chat up.

Sandisk look prettier. ;-)

John
 
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gdi said:
Do you have a direct link for the SDHC cards for 2 for $38?

Thanks
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The link is: http://www.adorama.com/IDSSD8GE3.html. This shows the single item. The rebate has a varying rebate amount on one, two or three (increasing).

From this the price (totals) for one is $24, two is $38 and three is $47, after rebate. Using the rebate form at: http://www.adorama.com/pdfs/rebates/sandiskx_101108.pdf
There has been some noise about difficulty with the rebate method (debit card), but I have done two with Adorama on these SanDisk rebates and have had zero problems (even used one at a grocery store).
 
plummerl said:
The link is: http://www.adorama.com/IDSSD8GE3.html. This shows the single item. The rebate has a varying rebate amount on one, two or three (increasing).

From this the price (totals) for one is $24, two is $38 and three is $47, after rebate. Using the rebate form at: http://www.adorama.com/pdfs/rebates/sandiskx_101108.pdf
There has been some noise about difficulty with the rebate method (debit card), but I have done two with Adorama on these SanDisk rebates and have had zero problems (even used one at a grocery store).
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Thanks Larry!
 
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