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Get rid if old SD cards would be my advice , I silly like was still using cards years old ,Sandsisk 125 to be exact. So now my camera has to go in for repair. The contact pins on one card fell out in the camera slot and need the camera opened up to remove them. I never gave it a thought that this would happen but it did. So now ordered a batch of new cards direct from Sandisk a I have heard some sellers may well be selling fake ones. thank goodness I have a backup camera , one never knows when it may be needed
 
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Pins? SD cards have contact pads rather than any pins. Do you mean CF cards since the receivers/sockets for them DO have pins?
 
your correct pads not pins. I think most know what i was talking about
 
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Surely if a card has broken within the slot it would simply be a case of shaking the debris out , can’t see how the pads would get stuck in the slot. And even if it had got jammed some slim tweezers would get it out as used in phone repairs ..
Lidl recently had a set of Japanese screwdriver bits and tweezers in a kit for I think around £7.99 got mine as a keep handy set
 
Jeff I thought so too. A good shaking etc and I did try that. At the camera repair shop he did say the pads were bent . This could have happened in pulling the SD card out??? maybe why they didn't "fall out".

Thinking on about it and worth a mention. I was beginning to have bad connections in the card reader, Took 3/4 times to connect. SO next time If I start getting the same problem the SD cards make a flying trip to be scrapped. I

was trying to think how old these cards must have been. I did have one before that came apart but that is all. These cards must be oh well over 10 years old if not even older. I did recently get some newer ones 128GB with 200mb/s so those should be ok for a few more years. There was a guy from Scotland wanting to get another CF card but the cost!!!! so I sent him the ones I had and no longer needed. He needed I didn't . Think he is or was a member on here.?

Orders 3 more cards from Sandisk direct I worry about getting "dodgy " ones on Ebay.

The way I look at it is if one owns say a few thounds of pounds on cameras and lenses , which isn't hard to do. Couple of lenses and a camera and your into a four figure sum straight away . no point in then looking for the cheapest seller of memory cards.
 
Even without camera damage I feel like this is good advice! I have a tin that is full of SD cards that I will never use again, why on earth am I keeping 2GB, 4GB or even 8GB cards, even 32GB get demoted to the audio recorder :LOL:
 
I only use each card twice: when the cards are full, the card from slot 2 gets archived, and the card from slot 1 goes to slot 2, gets formatted, and a new card goes in slot 1.
Not the cheapest way of doing things, but still cheaper than film! :)
 
skullfunkerry said:
I only use each card twice: when the cards are full, the card from slot 2 gets archived, and the card from slot 1 goes to slot 2, gets formatted, and a new card goes in slot 1.
Not the cheapest way of doing things, but still cheaper than film! :)
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Wowsers! That's extreme. I guess it depends how critical things are but as a mere amateur, I'm quite happy to take a punt on using good quality cards for a while, especially so on cameras with two card slots. I think mechanical failure is actually quite rare and in my own limited experience you tend to get the odd early warning sign when a card is turning bad, the odd corrupt image for example. That's the point I'd bin them.
 
skullfunkerry said:
I only use each card twice: when the cards are full, the card from slot 2 gets archived, and the card from slot 1 goes to slot 2, gets formatted, and a new card goes in slot 1.
Not the cheapest way of doing things, but still cheaper than film! :)
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I agree thats extreme, if you don't press the shutter too often then its probably manageable, but last weekend I shot approx 5,000 RAW images on the X-T3 (and a futher 500 on the Leica Q3 43), and at the Donington Historic Festical I shot around 11,500 so it wouldn't work for me.

I have a NAS drive, so already have a good backup system, where on import every image is automatically copied to 3 physical drives.

The only SD card failures I have had (all genuine Sandisk, I now have a mixture of Lexar and Sony Tough)), have been on insertion into an old card card reader (long since gone). I do though employ a rotation system with 8 x 128Gb cards across my 3 digital cameras.
 
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gad-westy said:
Wowsers! That's extreme. I guess it depends how critical things are but as a mere amateur, I'm quite happy to take a punt on using good quality cards for a while, especially so on cameras with two card slots. I think mechanical failure is actually quite rare and in my own limited experience you tend to get the odd early warning sign when a card is turning bad, the odd corrupt image for example. That's the point I'd bin them.
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I agree thats extreme, if you don't press the shutter too often then its probably manageable, but last weekend I shot approx 5,000 RAW images on the X-T3 (and a futher 500 on the Leica Q3 43), and at the Donington Historic Festical I shot around 11,500 so it wouldn't work for me.

I have a NAS drive, so already have a good backup system, where on import every image is automatically copied to 3 physical drives.

The only SD card failures I have had (all genuine Sandisk, I now have a mixture of Lexar and Sony Tough)), have been on insertion into an old card card reader (long since gone). I do though employ a rotation system with 8 x 128Gb cards across my 3 digital cameras.
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Funnily enough I have been thinking for a while that it's overkill (it's definitely not critical for me, I too am a mere amateur). I do sometimes take a fair few shots (I haven't quite managed 5000 in one go yet!), but for things like RIAT or CameraWorld Live I've taken a couple of thousand. I've got about 10 SD cards now I think, so I might start rotating them rather than buying any more for a while...
 
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Funnily enough I have been thinking for a while that it's overkill (it's definitely not critical for me, I too am a mere amateur). I do sometimes take a fair few shots (I haven't quite managed 5000 in one go yet!), but for things like RIAT or CameraWorld Live I've taken a couple of thousand. I've got about 10 SD cards now I think, so I might start rotating them rather than buying any more for a while...
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This is what I have, works for me

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Never had an issue with SD cards apart from when I put one in back to front.
Soon realised and yanked it out with a pair of pliers, didn't get far enough down to affect the contacts.
 
I have been shooting wildlife for around 25 years and photography for 54 years and gone through many p.p apps and systems ,some now long defunct I have many years of backed up files on a few hard drives .. and in all honesty have NEVER ever had to find a file or even look for one . I think it's a pointless exercise for an amateur anyway and when the fancy takes me I'll probably bin the lot . my wife and kids will have zero interest when I depart this mortal coil so what's the point
 
I guess everyone is different but I definitely believe that it is worth keeping old Raw images
Over the last few months I have been going back a re converting/ re editing some old Raws
Sometimes it isn’t possible to reshoot pictures, as an example I redid some pictures of the Tigers and tiger cubs from the old enclosure at Chester zoo
It just wouldn’t be possible to take those shots now as the new enclosure is completely different , better for the Tigers but in some ways not so good for photography
Luckily I had kept the old Raws including some that I had not done anything with at the time
 
LCPete said:
I guess everyone is different but I definitely believe that it is worth keeping old Raw images
Over the last few months I have been going back a re converting/ re editing some old Raws
Sometimes it isn’t possible to reshoot pictures, as an example I redid some pictures of the Tigers and tiger cubs from the old enclosure at Chester zoo
It just wouldn’t be possible to take those shots now as the new enclosure is completely different , better for the Tigers but in some ways not so good for photography
Luckily I had kept the old Raws including some that I had not done anything with at the time
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What has this got to do with SD cards which is the heading subject?
 
realspeed said:
What has this got to do with SD cards which is the heading subject?
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The conversation had drifted to talking about backups and keeping photos was just trying to interact will stay away next time
 
LCPete said:
The conversation had drifted to talking about backups and keeping photos was just trying to interact will stay away next time
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no your welcome to post on this thread about memory card and their problems regarding seperation or damage . if I may suggest if you want to post about saving RAW files/ backups etc, maybe better to start a seperate thread so members can talk about that instead.
 
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realspeed said:
no your welcome to post on this thread about memory card and their problems regarding seperation or damage . if I may suggest if you want to post about saving RAW files/ backups etc, maybe better to start a seperate thread so members can talk about that instead.
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a) You don't get to decide what people post on this thread; OP or not.

b) What they are talking about is far more interesting than your rather weird opening post.
 
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I was trying to let members find information easier about RAW files and backups. if they were on a seperate thread . Definately not the way you interpreted it.

quote" a) You don't get to decide what people post on this thread; OP or not."unquote

On another thread headed WHAT HAPPENED you said quote " Go to the doctor. Now.". bit hypocritical I think
 
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realspeed said:
On another thread headed WHAT HAPPENED you said quote " Go to the doctor. Now.". bit hypocritical I think
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Are you off your head on something? The guy had signs of a potentially mobile haematoma.
 
Yep really good advise in that thread docs or optician and a.s.a.p as well
 
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skullfunkerry said:
I only use each card twice: when the cards are full, the card from slot 2 gets archived, and the card from slot 1 goes to slot 2, gets formatted, and a new card goes in slot 1.
Not the cheapest way of doing things, but still cheaper than film! :)
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Do you ever check that the data on your archived cards are still good? SD cards aren't the best things for long-term storage.
 
Snapsh0t said:
Do you ever check that the data on your archived cards are still good? SD cards aren't the best things for long-term storage.
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I haven’t actually, but I’ll have a look at the later today. And as a direct result of this thread I’ve realised that I have a bit of a ridiculous system going, so I’m going to start reusing my cards I think :)
 
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sd card had fallen apart, scratched due to removal Stuff the insurance company who wanted £100 up front first, I have been messed about too much by tghem. Now booked in with Panasonic nominated repairers and being collected by DPD tomorrow.
 
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Without being funny Barry , surely that amount of damage has not just been caused just extracting it from the slot .. the first thing that springs to mind is how old is that card . And why is the print work so faded, Scratches yes I can understand if it was jammed in but this amount of damage goes way beyond that level .. hmmm ?
 
Jeff I have no idea how old that card is. If the open slot end on the card has a bit missing on the right , maybe that is what has damaged the slot contacts?
 
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the black fox said:
Without being funny Barry , surely that amount of damage has not just been caused just extracting it from the slot .. the first thing that springs to mind is how old is that card . And why is the print work so faded, Scratches yes I can understand if it was jammed in but this amount of damage goes way beyond that level .. hmmm ?
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I did wonder how that card was so badly damaged as well looking at its stage from those pictures. I've a couple of old Sandisk 64GB cards (not sure exactly but around 9-10 years old) that have been in and out of cameras and readers many times but they look nothing like that.
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What SD card would you use in a Pentax x5. Thanks
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Is it this camera here:


Going by the specs it supports SDXC and some pages are claiming a maximum of 128GB so depending on your needs a 32GB SDHC or 64GB SDXC card would probably be plenty.
 
Looking at the spec on the card it’s fairly modern , but looks far older .. again I do realise that you might have struggled to get this out of a jammed slot but it shouldn’t have resulted in this sort of damage ..
Being objective if this was presented to me for an insurance claim I would be very suspicious as to what caused it.. and yes agreed the broken plastic caused the problem … but there are to many buts after viewing this .. personally I would just let a repairer look at the camera and see if it can be repaired your digging your own grave with these photos
 
JohnMcL7 said:
I did wonder how that card was so badly damaged as well looking at its stage from those pictures. I've a couple of old Sandisk 64GB cards (not sure exactly but around 9-10 years old) that have been in and out of cameras and readers many times but they look nothing like that.

Is it this camera here:


Going by the specs it supports SDXC and some pages are claiming a maximum of 128GB so depending on your needs a 32GB SDHC or 64GB SDXC card would probably be plenty.
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yes
 
this is on;y the second time a sandisk card has fallen apart on me since before the Nikon D70s was release and that was my second digital camera . the first being A Kodak easyshare model
 
UPDATE

DPD have picked up my camera? easy enough? well the driver could not get his scanner to read the bar code provided by DPD office. So luckily he had a temporary bar code he stuck on the pink box instead. lso had yet another phone call from the same lady as before asking the same questions. Now to me that is double checking to see if there is any variation from what I told here before. I suspect checking if it is a fraud claim. can't really blame them I suppose.
 
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UPDATE

DPD tried to deliver my parcel today?ha ha you must be joking. No one in DPD bothered to check the companies opening time they were delivering to. So now "hopefully?????" it will be delivered tomorrow. Just more proof that no one cares about the customer. At least it was sent insured so if it gets lost !!!!!!!!!
 
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Update re Panasonic G9ii and damaged card slot.

Camera has been at the repairs for a few days and can be repaires. I have accepted their quote and paid "not saying how much" and I have no idea how long it will take. It all depends on getting the part. Next battle is getting the insurers to cough up . At least I shall be getting the camera back. Apparently is is not covered under warranty but I didn't expect it to be.
Now just a case of waiting I suppose
 
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