wparsonsgisnet Posted June 8, 2007 Share #1 Posted June 8, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'm getting ready to buy some 4GB SD cards. I believe Guya dn other s have posted that the Transcend 150x cards are fine in the M8. Any new update on these standard cards? I'm willing to stick with 2GB cards, but thot it might be time to stretch out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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fotografr Posted June 8, 2007 Share #2 Posted June 8, 2007 I also use the Transcend 4GB 150X cards and have had no problems with them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted June 8, 2007 Share #3 Posted June 8, 2007 Bill i buy mine from here. Good place to buy from http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/s.nl/it.A/id.862/.f?sc=2&category=694 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted June 8, 2007 Author Share #4 Posted June 8, 2007 Very nice, tnx. I see them at Amazon @ $44, today--bot 'em. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted June 8, 2007 Author Share #5 Posted June 8, 2007 Bill i buy mine from here. Good place to buy fromTranscend 150X Ultimate High Speed Secure Digital Card - 4GB 150X - TS4GSD150 Thanks, Guy. I looked there but (at-the-moment, what else can one say on the web?) found them cheaper at Amazon. I've used mydigital before, as well. I can't believe how cool this technology is: 250 pix per card (hi-res jpg + dng) multiple iso's chimping instant image manipulation on the pc Thanks for the assistance. I shooting a wedding in July, and will have time to play with the cards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted June 8, 2007 Share #6 Posted June 8, 2007 I've been holding off, using 2GB cards, from SanDisk X-III as well as Transcend 150x. The Transcend are significantly cheaper but not conforming to some of the standards. Doesn't seem to matter at 2GB, but when we finally see SDHC support, the cards which meet the standards should download 2 or more times faster, and go to 4 and 8 GB. The X-III does seem to download faster than the Transcend 150X and both are much faster than the SanDisk Ultra II. There are tables on Rob Galbraith (the old site, I suppose) that offer some of this information. scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted June 8, 2007 Share #7 Posted June 8, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thanks Scott , good info. I'm just waiting also for SDHC support until then the transcends are working without problems. That part is the most important at this point. % dollars cheaper at Amazon is 5 dollars in the pocket , good catch Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted June 8, 2007 Author Share #8 Posted June 8, 2007 Scott, thanks for the comment. [sorry all, RANT coming!] I don't expect speed to make much difference since Leica runs out of buffer space anyway. After all the complaints from D2 users I don't understand why this was addressed in the fashion it was. 10 pix is not enough for many people. There is already a stake in the sand with the Canon that does 15. This was a chance for Leica to do something better ------ and, with software changes coming a bigger buffer would have made a lot of sense. There is also a bug related to the 10-pic buffer. When the buffer is full, if you press the shutter, the M8 stores the instruction and takes a picture when the buffer frees up. That picture cannot be what the photographer wants by any stretch of the imagination. Great camera. These guys need some professional help. Maybe they're using working photographers in their design process, but that's not well-known. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted June 8, 2007 Author Share #9 Posted June 8, 2007 ... 5 dollars cheaper at Amazon is 5 dollars in the pocket , good catch Bill If I could do this sort of thing with my monthly mortgage payment ...... I feel I spend my lifetime saving $5 every day but don't seem to get rich. Must be the big-ticket items that keep arriving at my door. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff Posted June 8, 2007 Share #10 Posted June 8, 2007 Very nice, tnx. I see them at Amazon @ $44, today--bot 'em. Bill, You act faster than I can respond. I to, based on the successful reports from Guy, purchased, and have been using, Transcend 4GB cards. However, Transcend has about three different cards in the 4GB range with only one being really applicable for the M8, denoted as the 4GB 150x SD Compatible (TS4GSD150). There's is also a 4GB 45x SD (TS4GSDC) and a 4GB SDHC (TS4GSDHC). Given that I find the write times on the 4GB 150x SD Compatible (TS4GSD150) to be noticeably slow, I would expect the 4GB 45x SD (TS4GSDC) to be intolerable. So much for speed ratings on SD cards and this is where the new "Class" ratings on SDHC come into play. Seems many manufacturers were playing high and low with their self assigned ratings, so the SD Association stepped in and tighten things up for SDHC cards. None-the-less, for around USD$40 per card, I can live with the 4GB 150x SD Compatible (TS4GSD150) cards until the M8 supports true SDHC cards, by way of a future firmware update, as stated by Leica. I purchased my Transcend 4GB 150x SD Compatible (TS4GSD150) cards through Newegg, who currently has them listed at USD$41.49. Additionally, I use dealram to aid in obtaining current pricing and finding vendors for memory cards. Geoff www.myspace.com/geoffotos Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted June 8, 2007 Author Share #11 Posted June 8, 2007 Geoff, I am using the same perspective you are, going with 150x cards until something else happens. It's clear that the M8 is not ready for SDHC, yet. I looked at NewEgg this morning at decision time and their prices were not as low as you are now seeing. This price-at-the-pump stuff is confusing sometimes. Thanks for the post. I've got 6 2gb cards, which are not quite enuf. The pair of 4gb cards I got should hold me for a while. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted June 8, 2007 Share #12 Posted June 8, 2007 Geoff and Bill pretty much the same thoughts , just holding on with these until SDHC is working on the M8 than i will switch over Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted June 8, 2007 Author Share #13 Posted June 8, 2007 It's nice to think that such a thing might be possible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL3075 Posted June 13, 2007 Share #14 Posted June 13, 2007 Guy, et.al., Does anyone have any idea as to when the HC versions will be useable on the m8?? Later this year? 2008? Thanks, BILL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonoslack Posted June 13, 2007 Share #15 Posted June 13, 2007 Gordon Bennett how many shots do you guys take!!!!! I have two bodies, and consider myself pretty profligate, and the idea of filling two 2Gb cards with RAW files is pretty incomprehensible. What DO you do with them all - keep them? Of couse, if you're doing a weddings, maybe you need that much space, but wouldn't it be better to be more measured, I've never found that machine gunning is the way to get good pictures. I've got half a dozen 2gb cards, but I've never used more than two in one day. My library of 20,000 shots is way beyond what anyone (even me) is ever going to look at, I know I should simply ditch 19,000 of them (wouldn't it be grand if one had taken 1,000 great photos). Sorry chaps it's getting late! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveEP Posted June 13, 2007 Share #16 Posted June 13, 2007 If I could do this sort of thing with my monthly mortgage payment ...... I feel I spend my lifetime saving $5 every day but don't seem to get rich. Must be the big-ticket items that keep arriving at my door. Boy I know that feeling well..... of course it doesn't help I just picked up a second M8 + grip today. Hmm... that was a lot of $5's that needed saving ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted June 13, 2007 Author Share #17 Posted June 13, 2007 Jono, I delete a lot, but often take 300 shots at a time (hi-res jpg + dng). If I don't have time to transfer and backup right away, then the card is out of circulation. Do (did) you keep film in the freezer? I know I had hundreds of $ worth of film in my freezer most of the time. Some of this, some of that, .... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonoslack Posted June 13, 2007 Share #18 Posted June 13, 2007 Jono, I delete a lot, but often take 300 shots at a time (hi-res jpg + dng). If I don't have time to transfer and backup right away, then the card is out of circulation. Do (did) you keep film in the freezer? I know I had hundreds of $ worth of film in my freezer most of the time. Some of this, some of that, .... Hi Bill I've taken 300 shots on a commercial shoot or a wedding, but for personal stuff - I think 120 is the absolute maximum (on some walk in an exotic location). Two weeks away, 1000 shots is much too much (I can't do them justice, and who's going to look?!) Truth is, I seem to be saving about 300 shots a month, and if I could choose 30 excellent ones and just have those - seems perfect to me! As for film in the freezer - no, never! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dseelig Posted June 13, 2007 Share #19 Posted June 13, 2007 Although there are no speed ratings for the leica m8 on robgalbraitth.com there are plenty of speed ratings for other cameras with sd cards. I would check there to get an idea how fast cards are. Also remember downloading time is very important . David Me I use sandisk cards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveB Posted June 13, 2007 Share #20 Posted June 13, 2007 I bought four of the TS4GSD150 cards from newegg and they work fine. My three year old card reader couldn't read them though. No problem reading the 2gb Ultra II cards. I felt a little tense until a new cheap card reader solved the problem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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