I've never had a card fail. I'm a Lexar shooter, mostly. Calumet photo makes an sd card that I use and no problems there either.
Cheers, Christine/Chicago On May 27, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Christine Nielsen <ch...@inielsen.net> wrote: > Yesterday I was trying to catch a few shots of my guy in action at the > state division track meet. I had my trusty k-5 plus 50-135 combo. I > had just reformatted the sd card, and took some pics, just to chimp. > So far, so good. The race started -- the one mile event -- and I shot > off a burst as the runners came past me. Since they have to travel > another 400 meters before they come around again, I took the > opportunity to peek at what I got... only the previews weren't yet > available. OK, I wait.... but the little red light stayed on... and > wouldn't go off... and now here the runners come again (66 seconds > later).... crap, there they go, and still my camera is hung up. No > shooting, no previews, just a little red light. I turn off the > camera. Red light remains, and on the top lcd screen, the "image > remaining" count still shows, approx 216 shots left. Then, I forget > exactly what I did -- probably turned it off & on, swore at it a few > times, and cheered for my runner -- but in the end, "memory card > error" on the back screen, and a remaining image count now at "0". > > And then the race was over. > > I've never had a memory card fail on me this way... it was traumatic! > I think it's just the card -- I popped another one in, and there were > no other problems. Does this behavior fit the profile of sd card > failures you've known? How much worse do you think I made the > situation with my frantic button-pushing? ;) > > Thanks, > -c > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
