A "tap end of the bath" failure.

Don't Sandisk have a lifetime warranty?

No. 2 is a shot I have been trying to take for ages. Top snapping.

Thanks Road Dancer - That's exactly what I was saying.

Gwyn - on my first computer the memory was in glass vessels and had 300V on it. On My first digital computer, a Honeywell IIRC, 16K of memory was the size of a kitchen drawer, and with a bit of maths, you could point out the "doughnut" that was at fault.

Initially I bought a Sandisk Extreme III 4Gb card with my K20. I formatted it when I got to that point in the destructions. That was nearly eighteen months ago and it has been formatted once since. I ought a second similar card and formatted it once. Both work perfectly.

One of my favourite lenses. You will probably find that you have to close it down a couple of stops to get sharp pictures at 500mm, but on a sunny day it will deliver the goods.

Enjoy.

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Hi Gwyn - my point is that if there are differences between the disc read write mechanisms of one camera and another which require the disc to be formatted, you would have to make the same assumption about a card reader.

The truth is that a lot of this formatting is a throwback to the days when discs were read by mechanically moved heads which had to be extremely accurately positioned. It was not unheard of for a disc to work in one drive but due to tiny differences between one drive and another, a second drive would not read it.

Agreed. Cards are formatted to a Microsoft standard and any incompatibility would indicate a problem. Constantly formatting them may mask such a problem.

If you had to format them every time you put them in a camera, then you would have to when you put them in a card reader, which would somewhat defeat the object of the exercise.

I would be surprised if the vendor could not be done for "with intent".

Last year I took several pictures of aeroplanes with my 16-50 at 16mm. No obvious problem. A while ago I took a picture which had vertical lines near the edges of the picture and the problem stood out like a sore thumb. I sorted it out in Silkypix, then out of curiosity, applied the same corrections to the aeroplane pictures. The difference was substantial, but neither before or after looked that bad.

I guess it depends very much on the subject.

I would have thought so.

To put it on an advert in public seems to be asking for trouble.

Taken from the first link -

Does that strike anyone as a bit naughty?