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From: Ofnuts <o.f.n.u....@la.poste.net>

Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:35:52 +0200

Local: Fri, Jul 10 2009 2:35 am

Subject: Re: New SDHC card for Nikon D80

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Jürgen Exner wrote:
> Bookish <bye.pl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I want to get a new 8GB or 16GB SDHC memory card for a Nikon D80
>> camera. Are there brands you would use in this camera or ones to be
>> avoided?

> More important is probably to buy from a reputable dealer because faked
> cards which claim to have x GB but actually with much less capacity are
> still around.
> And no, the better fakes you cannot detect by simply looking at the size
> of the card on your computer, because the modified firmware will report
> x GB. And on the best fakes you can even write to x GB because multiple
> address blocks are mapped to the same memory location and you will only
> notice after a long time that your data becomes corrupted whenever you
> write more than x/y GB to the card.

Let's not get paranoid here... doing a "fake" chip is expensive. The
"fakes" cards are mostly made ou of borderline chips, with few
remappable sectors available so they will wear ou a lot quicker than
regular cards.

--
Bertrand

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