gallantho Posted October 28, 2010 Share #1 Posted October 28, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi, I am wondering what is the biggest storage SD card for the firmware updated M8 Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted October 28, 2010 Posted October 28, 2010 Hi gallantho, Take a look here SD card for M8. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Nicoleica Posted October 28, 2010 Share #2 Posted October 28, 2010 I believe that you can use any available SD or SDHC card. However, once you go over 8GB, your counter is going to read 999 for a very long time. Plus, very high capacity cards mean that you can loose a lot more data in one go should it fail. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gallantho Posted October 28, 2010 Author Share #3 Posted October 28, 2010 thanks for the advice! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted October 28, 2010 Share #4 Posted October 28, 2010 Yes. SD or SDHC, but not SDXC. That means biggest card is 32GB, according to the SD 2.0 standard. Since you asked about the largest card usable, it's possible for a card manufacturer to work around this maximum by not adhering to the standard. I don't know of any manufacturer doing this and don't see a need for it with M8 or M9, but the fact that 32GB is the largest size for which SDHC is defined doesn't mean a larger card couldn't be produced. Nicole's answer adds practicality to the equation: If you lose a card, or if one goes south on you, how much data would you be prepared to lose? In his article "Frugality and the art of looking" (http://www.imx.nl/photo/page152/page152.html), Erwin Puts states his choice: ... I use the very old 512Mb cards in my M8 (this allows me to take about 50 pictures) or 1Gb cards in my M9. It is a pleasant surprise to note how this self imposed frugality concentrates the mind.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbray Posted October 28, 2010 Share #5 Posted October 28, 2010 I have got into the habit of using 2 Gb cards for exactly the same reason - lose one card and you have lost only 186-ish pictures, not the 1100 that you have taken over the week's holiday. On holiday, I find that one card of 2Gb is sufficient so a new card for each day is an easy system to follow. Even then, I like to backup to a netbook if I can. Some cards can be a bit slow to write and if I hit "play" too soon, the camera gets a bit twitchy. But just slow down, I tell myself, and don't worry too much! Martin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
!Nomad64 Posted October 28, 2010 Share #6 Posted October 28, 2010 I believe that you can use any available SD or SDHC card. However, once you go over 8GB, your counter is going to read 999 for a very long time. Plus, very high capacity cards mean that you can loose a lot more data in one go should it fail. +1 Bruno Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vignetting Posted October 29, 2010 Share #7 Posted October 29, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) I have try 32G, but didn't work with M8! The 8G is enough for whole day, bu t I have one battery only... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
beaudoin Posted November 2, 2010 Share #8 Posted November 2, 2010 I have cards of different sizes--2, 4, and 16. All Sandisk extreme. All work well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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