what brand of memory cards do you use?
By thebeing
@thebeing (657)
Romania
October 5, 2009 12:01pm CST
hey there!
i'm curious, what brand of memory cards do you use? i used so far sandisk and lexar, but i will NEVER EVER use lexar. Why? well, i went to the mountain side, and after a hiking trip of about 6 hours to the mountain top and 5 hours back in town and about 200-300 images taken, my lexar memory card died. and i mean DIED! couldn't retrieve the data at all. tried a lot of data rescue software. none worked. and to get it to a professional data recovery center to get my data back...well, they said it'll cost me between 90 and 140 euros, vat (19%) not included. HM! for that money, i'd rather go and take the photos again! lol.
Did you have any bad experience with memory cards? What brand were they?
6 responses
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
5 Oct 09
The only ones I have ever had fail were abused...dropped, left in the heat, that sort of thing. I am rather hard on my photo equipment. Cannot say how many cameras I have dropped, on the concrete, in water, you name it.
Yes I would go take the photos again myself too if that happened to me rather than pay so much. Too bad, though. Sometimes I do take extra memory cards and duplicate special shots just in case, but not usually as that is extra work and I am not such a good photography anyway. Mostly I just take reference shots for drawings and paintings that I want to do...or fodder to keep my blog running :-)
@nautilus33 (1827)
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12 Oct 09
Hi! I also use SanDisk and I think they are pretty good. I also have and a practica memory card that is also good and fast. And I have an Adata card, but it to slow and I think it's not so good. So I recommend the Practica and SanDisk memory cards.
@redeemedBYgrace (13)
• United States
8 Oct 09
That would really be agravating! I think I have every brand made and have never had any problems loosing data. It is agravating with the new HD ones I can not load from the card to a site. I have to load onto my computer then to a site.
@photobug (157)
• United States
11 Oct 09
I use Sandisk and Lexar and have been happy with both. You have to be careful with your memory cards. Of course, don't let your camera and cards near water or heat. Also, if you carry your card in your pocket, make sure you keep it in its case. If the magnetic or electronic ends can rub against car keys, coins, or other items and become damaged. And last, every so often, remove all your photos onto your hard drive or a DVD and re-format you disk. I sure hope you can recreate the scenes you took before. Good luck!
@rosahito351 (51)
• Philippines
7 Oct 09
I use Sandisk and Kingston. So far no problem. I put them inside their plastic box to prolong their life...
@Zenstrive (237)
• Indonesia
10 Oct 09
I use Sandisk and Lexar. My 8 GB lexar never gave up on me. My Sandisk once refused to be read (or my Rebel XSi refused to read) so I switch it my Lexar. My sandisk can be read afterward though. It is strange :)
