[at-l] Re:(at-l) Digital Photos

[wb4pan at mindspring.com (Chase Davidson)]

Jan,
	My Fuji says to only format the card when needed. Excessive 
formatting shortens the life of the card. It did recommend any 
formatting should be done in the camera and not on a pc. I always 
delete my pictures in the camera after I have put the pictures on a pc 
using a card reader. I select delete all on my particular camera 
without even looking at them. But this is a Fuji and Smart media 
recommendation. I guess others are different.
	One thing I did do was to number my cards. This way card #1 gets used 
the most and card # 7 gets used the least amount, only on longer 
trips. I did this so I could find out the life of a card. My number 
one card has gotten finicky to download in my card reader. I can view 
the pictures fine in the camera but the reader can't find them without 
several attempts. Formatting did not solve the problem. So now I do 
not use card #1 until the last resort. How many pics did I get out of 
number one? I do not really know but it was a lot of pictures over 
several years.
	That's what I did anyhow. Makes me wonder if I had formatted the card 
every time if it would have lasted longer. Probably not. I suspected 
the problem was the gold contacts and have cleaned them with alcohol 
and that didn't help.

chaseAT99


janl2@mindspring.com wrote:

> 
> Ken, 
> Why is deleting picturesin the camera bad?
> I delete shots in there all the time.
> I ask, because this is the first I've heard this advice. What, if any, am I screwing up?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
>>One thing I will suggest is to NEVER delete pictures from the card while it
> 
> is in the camera, and to *always* re-format the card in the camera (not in
> the computer) when every time install it in the camera after downloading the
> pictures (and backing them up a couple of times.)
> 
> 
>>The only time I have ever had serious card problems is when I have failed to
> 
> follow this advice (which is generally followed by professionals). So I make
> it an obsession to reformat every time the card goes in the camera.
> 
> 
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