SD cards at low prices.

[Nicoleica]

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Please accept my apologies if you have seen this, but these prices for Lexar cards seem very good. Lexar 16GB Professional 133x SDHC Memory Card LSD16GCRBNA133 B&H

[rjans]

Please accept my apologies if you have seen this, but these prices for Lexar cards seem very good. Lexar 16GB Professional 133x SDHC Memory Card LSD16GCRBNA133 B&H

 

Thanks Nicole for sharing. Are these cards usable in the M8 with the latest firmware? I searched here and the Leica website but could not find. Always thought that 8 GB was the maximum for the M8.

 

Best

Roger

[Nicoleica]

Roger, I believe that they work Ok in the M8, but you will see 999 as your remaining image count for a long time with anything larger than 8GB. The main reason that I posted this link, is that it's not just the 16GB cards that are a low price, the 8GB cards are only $26 for a class 10, or $18 for a class 6. The price of good quality memory cards seems to be dropping a lot this year.

[ho_co]

... Always thought that 8 GB was the maximum for the M8...

Roger--

As Nicole says, the M8 works with SDHC cards. SDHC covers a range of sizes from 4GB to 32GB.

 

The M8 and the M9 won't benefit from the extra speed, but downloading from the cards will likely be quicker and you'll have a faster card for the next generation of camera.

 

Of course, the next generation will also take SDXC cards.

 

 

Keep in mind also that the M8 and M9 are both pretty picky about which cards work and which don't.

 

And the manufacturers continually change not only the names of their cards but also the cards themselves. Someone reported here within the last couple weeks that a certain version of SanDisk cards currently available has a different actual capacity from that of the card with exactly the same designation that he had previously bought.

 

In other words, Leica can't test all the cards on the market, and even the ones they test and recommend may not be the same as the card we buy six months later with the same designation.

[hunz]

Please accept my apologies if you have seen this, but these prices for Lexar cards seem very good. Lexar 16GB Professional 133x SDHC Memory Card LSD16GCRBNA133 B&H

 

I wonder what the max write sped of these cards are. It only states min of 20MB/s.

 

These are very cheap compared to their SanDisk Extreme Pro counterparts (almost double the price) which are rated at 45MB/s

 

Only ever used SanDisk Extreme, but Lexar from my knowledge are right at the top. Am curious about the max write speed if anyone knows?

[ho_co]

Some cards don't even live up to the supposed minimum speed, according to the forum.

 

Remember that just after the war, Ilford would make a batch of film and then shoot a couple test rolls to figure out whether to sell it as ASA 100 or ASA 400. Since cards seem to vary so much, my guess (pure speculation) is that a manufacturer makes a batch and then decides by testing them whether to market them as Class 6 or Class 10.

 

Remember, it's the manufacturers who set the standards; they're not going to state a maximum throughput because then you'll want the next batch to be as good.

 

 

 

Oh, and I'll be glad for anyone to prove me wrong.

[hunz]

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Remember that just after the war, Ilford would make a batch of film and then shoot a couple test rolls to figure out whether to sell it as ASA 100 or ASA 400.

 

LOLOL

[ho_co]

Yeah, funny but true. Reported many years ago in a British magazine, "Camera" maybe. Or "Photography."

 

They were just getting re-started after WWII and their chemistry controls weren't at the level they wanted. But they made do with what they had.

 

I can imagine Fujifilm technicians standing around and looking at the goop they've just made and asking, "I wonder. D'you suppose it's Kodachrome?"