Take pictures, put them on computer, delete them from SD card to use it again....does doing this over and over decrease the quality of your photos?
What is your experience with SD cards and what are you fav brands and why?
Elaborate as much as you wish.
It shouldn't do. But the SD card that came with my camera when I brought it broke within a week, said card error and forced me to format the camera : So i got a new one. Can't remember the brand of it!! Grr. If the quality of the pictures is bad on the camera, but normal on the computer then it could be water damage or dropping damage of the actual camera.
But using it over and shouldnt decrease the quality of the camera, well not that I know of or have heard of.
Hope this helped and good luck!! :]
Nope. I have memory cards that are over six years old and still work fine. They are solid state devices that just record a bunch of zeros and ones, nothing to them.
I have used all the brands out there with NO difference in quality from one to another.
Corruption of a card has nothing to do with the card. What causes that is how it is used. If it is removed when the camera is still writing to it, it is zapped by static electricity or the most common is when people delete images from a memory card to make room for more. The way a memory card should be used is start with a freshly formatted memory card (SD / SDHC, xD, CF or Memory Stick). As soon as you return from shooting with your camera, copy all the images to your computer. As soon as the images are safely on your computer, format the card using the format feature on your camera.
You CAN damage the card by physically damaging it
No but in time, as with any other electronic device, the SD card will wear out and develop bad sectors which would lead to corrupted files which would further lead to unrecoverable pictures.
There is no surefire way to tell when this will happen so it is highly recommended to buy smaller sized SD cards, say 1Gb or 2Gb, and bring more of them than to use one really huge size. You would at least salvage some photos in case one unexpectedly breaks down. At the first sign of file corruption, replace the card.
Although I use different brands, I can not see any difference among them. They are all relatively cheap no name brands except for the original Sony 4Gb memory stick that emptied my wallet.
It is also good practice to format the SD card after transferring all pictures to the computer instead of deleting pictures one at a time. Ideally, after a shoot, you transfer all the files immediately to a computer and back it up to a CD then format the SD card even if it is not yet full to be ready for the next shoot.
I have never had an SD card go bad. I have used sandisk, kingston and transcend.
Answer by snowwillow20 on 07 Jan 2010 04:22:10
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