I've dropped SD cards into my pants or shirt pocket with no ill effects. Accidentally put one through the washing machine once, it had no problems afterwards.
Godfrey On Aug 22, 2006, at 7:56 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > I have both a D and a Ds. So I use both cards. The shortcomings > of CF > cards mainly seem to be the mechanical connection. There's been much > talk about pins breaking off on devices that accept them. If the CF > socket is well designed and implemented, and you have 1/2 of a clue > about what you're doing, that doesn't seem to be much of a > problem. SD > cards have a much more robust connection. On the other hand they are > probably more fragile, but due to their size it would take an > effort to > snap one in half. My main complaint about the SD cards is their size. > They are physically too small. If I'm in a hurry when using the > *ist-D > I can just drop a CF card in a pocket and pop an new one in the > camera. > Not really recommended but I'm not too worried about losing it. I > would > never do that with a SD card, it might disappear into the pocket lint. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
