Thanks, Chuck. Yes, I have several of the Transcend 16GB cards and they
have always worked perfectly. I still have the 32GB cards and will try
formating them in the computer. If they are incompatable with the Leica
M's, though, they are useless to me! Leica recommends the Transcend brand
but I don't know if they recommend 32GB ones.
Tina
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think the takeaway here is to test the cards both in a computer to
> read/write the entire data area and a more limited test in the camera
> since it's also possible there's some sort of incompatibility with the
> camera. When formatting on a Windows computer choose the "full format"
> rather than "quick format" option. Doing so will read/write the entire
> directory and data area and check for errors.
>
> 32GB is a pretty large card and I'm wondering if you've ever used 32GB
> of any other brand in your cameras. It really shouldn't make a logic
> difference once the size is 4GB or greater (the point at which file
> format changes from FAT16 to FAT32) but I can envision a possibility
> that the camera can't handle the size of the directory for such a large
> card. I think the symptoms you describe might well fit that type of
> problem... works fine up to a point and then goes bonkers. There may
> also be other camera/compatibility problems that I can't think of at the
> moment. But if this is the problem you couldn't discover it without
> first filling the card full of images. But you can do that by
> formatting the card in the camera and then copying enough unique images
> to it on the computer to at least equal the numbers you had at the point
> you seemed to run into trouble.
>
> If you haven't sent the cards back to Amazon yet try reading them
> directly in the computer. If they read properly in the computer then I
> would say the cards are OK and the problem resides in the camera. If
> they don't read properly, however, the camera is still not absolved
> since in its own confusion it may have scrambled the directory.
>
> I only have one Transcend card which is a 16GB SDHC. I've been using it
> for about two years. It's a class 10 card, is very fast and has been
> perfectly reliable.
>
> On 3/22/2013 9:34 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
> > PESO:
> >
> > Well, we are back from our whilrwind trip to Gibraltar, Morocco, and
> Spain
> > and I'm downloading the photos now. The biggest lesson I learned this
> trip
> > was to never again travel without a computer! I thought for such a short
> > trip, I would just take lots of SD cards and my Kindle to check e-mail.
> > Big mistake! I had bought 4 32GB Transcend cards and they did NOT
> work.
> > They would work fine for awhile and then get hung up on data transfer
> for
> > hours. I would have to take the battery and card out to get them to work
> > again and then half the time it would tell me I had no photos on the card
> > when I actually had several hundred. I quit using those and only had my
> > old, smaller cards to use. The 32GB cards are going back to Amazon. I
> > have no idea what I lost but I think the wedding photos are safe on 4GB
> > cards. I missed having the opportunity to download photos and review
> them
> > at night before taking more the next day. My little Acer netbook would
> not
> > have been much larger than the Kindle and I could have used it for
> > downloading photos, too. I also missed the security of making two copies
> > to keep in different locations which I usually do on trips.
> >
> > The M9 and MM worked fine even in torrential downpours. I used the
> 35/1.4,
> > 24/2.8, and 90/2.0 far more than any of the other lenses I took. I
> think I
> > could have done fine with just those three.
> >
> > I also have to catch up on all of the e-mails which were too hard to read
> > and answer using the Kindle! I did like it for reading and guidebooks,
> > though.
> >
> > Photos will follow someday!
> >
> > Tina
> >
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