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From: Alfred Molon on 28 Mar 2010 07:44
In article <holdk3$lqp$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, user(a)example.net
says...
> True, but CF does seem to be going obsolete. Laptops (not sure about
> desktops) don't come with CF readers built in.

Indeed when I upgraded my Lenovo notebook the old one had a CF reader,
while the new one only has an SD reader.
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Alfred Molon
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http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
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From: Gary Edstrom on 28 Mar 2010 10:35
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:57:18 +1000, Doug Jewell
<ask(a)and.maybe.ill.tell.you> wrote:

>It seemed that almost every week, we'd have customers (often
>professionals) bringing in high-end Nikons and Canons with
>bent pins. Neither Nikon or Canon would fix them under
>warranty, average repair bill for a Canon was about $300 and
>about $500 for a Nikon.

[snip]

Interesting...my personal experience is exactly the opposite. I always
worried about bending a pin. But in over 11 years of CF usage, I have
NEVER had a SINGLE bent pin.

Still, it is nice to get the pins out of the way with the SD cards, but
I will be left with a personal inventory of about 72-gigabytes of CF
cards! :-)

Gary

From: John McWilliams on 28 Mar 2010 14:20
Peter wrote:
> "Savageduck" <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in message
> news:2010032716372140194-savageduck1(a)REMOVESPAMmecom...
>> On 2010-03-27 16:06:01 -0700, RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> said:
>> -----------------------------
>>> You believe that. All you need is one person to jack the card
>>> sideways with some force. There is always slack in a slot system,
>>> there has to be and things like a cold plastic card (shrinkage) means
>>> even more slack.
>>
>> So shrinkage and slack in the cold is your problem.
>>

> I have that problem, but not with my CF cards.


It should really be quite recoverable, unless it's on Seinfeld....

--
john mcwilliams

Max thought the night-time burglary at the California surfing museum
would be a safe caper, but that was before he spotted the security cop
riding a bull mastiff, blond hair blowing in the wind, and noticed the
blue-and-white sign wired to the cyclone fence, "Guard dude on
doggy."11:20:10 AM
From: Gary Edstrom on 28 Mar 2010 17:07
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:35:42 -0700, Gary Edstrom <GEdstrom(a)PacBell.Net>
wrote:

>On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:57:18 +1000, Doug Jewell
><ask(a)and.maybe.ill.tell.you> wrote:
>
>>It seemed that almost every week, we'd have customers (often
>>professionals) bringing in high-end Nikons and Canons with
>>bent pins. Neither Nikon or Canon would fix them under
>>warranty, average repair bill for a Canon was about $300 and
>>about $500 for a Nikon.
>
>[snip]
>
>Interesting...my personal experience is exactly the opposite. I always
>worried about bending a pin. But in over 11 years of CF usage, I have
>NEVER had a SINGLE bent pin.
>
>Still, it is nice to get the pins out of the way with the SD cards, but
>I will be left with a personal inventory of about 72-gigabytes of CF
>cards! :-)
>
>Gary

Just as sort of a side note: I got my first digital camera, a Kodak
DC-265 back in May of 1999. It came with a single 16 meg CF card. That
was already double the size that was typically being included with
digital cameras at the time. Still, that 16 megs would not be quite
enough to hold a single RAW mode CR2 file from my Canon 50D today. Those
pictures average about 19.5 megs each!

That 16mb card is still functional today, but what use is there for it?
Still, I hate to discard anything that is still 100% functional, no
matter how old it is. I guess that's why I have so much electronic junk
around my place.

The last time I ever took a film camera on a trip with me was to Midway
Island back in April of 2001. I had a 4 mega-pixel Olympus E-10 by that
time, but still didn't trust digital photography comletely. But after
seeing my pictures from that trip, even at only 4 mega-pixels, the
digital performed better than my film camera. That is when I said
goodbye to film.

Gary
From: Mike Russell on 28 Mar 2010 19:16
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:40:32 +0200, Alfred Molon wrote:

[re CF cards]
> I have a card reader here which won't take CF cards anymore because of
> bent pins. Granted it was a cheap card reader, but I couldn't manage to
> solve the problems.
>
> In any case, if you think a bit about it, it is insane that a memory
> card has so many pins. And everything is moving to serial interfaces
> these days - the printer port on computers which used to be parallel has
> been replaced by USB, PATA has been replaced by SATA etc.

I used to swear by my CF->PC Card adapter as the fastest reader in the
west. After I started buying SD cards, I got a CF->SD adapter to use on my
older Nikon, and discovered the computer interface is significantly faster
for SD than CF.

Re the bent pins, at our local drug store the kiosk's CF reader lasts about
a week before the pins get bent from an inexperienced person jamming the
wrong card in. Whoever's fault that might be, as a practical matter, this
means drug stores cannot accept CF cards.
--
Mike Russell - http://www.curvemeister.com
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