Re: [CGUYS] High quality brand SD card?

2008-01-15 Thread gerald
we have an 8 gig mmc chip. looks just like an SD at first glance. http://www.jvcservice.com/store/ProductDetail.asp?part=QAM0467-002 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiMediaCard wonder if one of these will work. seems it does sometimes. the price sure is right. At 01:09 PM 1/15/2008, you wr

Re: [CGUYS] High quality brand SD card?

2008-01-15 Thread db
Ugh!!! I just took a look at the SD card standards description on Wikipedia and it's not pretty! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card It explains my mystery of not finding a mainstream non SDHC 4GB card. Apparently, mainstream vendors moved to SDHC when manufacturing that size. A

Re: [CGUYS] High quality brand SD card?

2008-01-14 Thread Jeff Miles
Thank you. Now I'll run back to the manual and find out exactly what they say I should use (now I'm confused and not sure) and be back with the same questions about price, quality and where to find them. Jeff M On Jan 14, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: There is a differe

Re: [CGUYS] High quality brand SD card?

2008-01-14 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
There is a difference between SDHC and high speed. high speed refers to the writing time for the card to read and write there are differences between cards. SDHC refers to the standard of capacity the card can hold with SDHC being used for all cards (that meat the standard) 4GB and above. S

Re: [CGUYS] High quality brand SD card?

2008-01-14 Thread Jeff Miles
Actually my 256mb sd card is good enough for me when it comes to just doing pics. But Panasonic recommends the high speed card (I'm assuming that is the sdhc?) for doing the quality video my camera is also capable of doing. Though the video it's doing now seems fine. I haven't tested it (t

Re: [CGUYS] High quality brand SD card?

2008-01-14 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
In order to use SDHC you must have a device that will read SDHC. Not all devices do, it is not backward compatible. Stewart At 08:20 PM 1/14/2008, you wrote: why not just get an sdhc? what you got against sdhc? what you consider a good price? 4 gig do 1000 pitchers. 4's are 34 bucks all

Re: [CGUYS] High quality brand SD card?

2008-01-14 Thread gerald
why not just get an sdhc? what you got against sdhc? what you consider a good price? 4 gig do 1000 pitchers. 4's are 34 bucks all day long. bought a 16gig a data for wife's camcorder for 80 bucks. what's wrong with a data? all made by same factory. in a fz 18, thats 4000 max rez images

Re: [CGUYS] High quality brand SD card?

2008-01-14 Thread Jeff Miles
I'd also like to know this. I've been looking for a 10GB high speed SD card for my Panasonic DMC-FZ18, of course at a reasonable price. Good to know not to go with the A DATA cards I might find. Jeff M On Jan 14, 2008, at 2:48 PM, db wrote: I want to buy a DURABLE high quality brand of SD

Re: [CGUYS] High quality brand SD card?

2008-01-14 Thread Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A.
and Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of db Sent: 01/14/2008 5:49 PM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: [CGUYS] High quality brand SD card? I want to buy a DURABLE high quality brand of SD card with medium speed RW capability (~9 mb/sec but don't need the fastes

[CGUYS] High quality brand SD card?

2008-01-14 Thread db
I want to buy a DURABLE high quality brand of SD card with medium speed RW capability (~9 mb/sec but don't need the fastest speeds available). (It's for for my Canon digital camera which can also shoot video but doesn't RW at the fastest speeds). I have had a 512MB and a 2GB SANDISK Ultra I