i've never heard that. damaging the card happens in a myriad of ways and most of them have to do with electrical damage from bad card readers or static electricity. i've seen one bent pin in all the time i have used memory cards with pins and that was a defective laptop with misaligned pins. there was nothing wrong with the memory.
Herb...
j.curtis wrote:
I've heard the excuse, more time then not, that the reason people are using these 8 and 16GB cards is due to damaging the pins. Even more so then physically losing the card. I just wanted to find out what these people had to base their opinion of this on being I've never actually heard of anyone damaging their pins.
Granted, my circumstances are beyond what most can conceive.
We shoot up to 100,000 images per day. To do that, it consists of shooting 100 images per camera in 2-3 minutes (up to 15 cameras at a time)
That card is then pulled out of the camera, put in a local FW reader, and another card is put in the camera. All generally in the dark and we do this for up to 16 hours per day.
Did I say I wasn't normal.
Now, that puts an average weekend to around 250 card insertions per day (half in camera and half in readers) - per camera. And I have at least 3 cameras per event going.
I've seen probably half a dozen bent pins in cameras - 1-series Canon bodies. I think the number of bent pin repairs exceeds the number of shutter failures I've seen in the same amount of time (6 years)
Not to say that there is a problem with our insertion method, the CF card slot design... it just happens sometimes - for as many insertions as we've done, I have no regret or re-training for when it happens. And it certainly isn't a reason to look at bigger cards to minimize the situation. Our situation demands that we download the cards every 3-4 minutes and can get away with smaller cards (512MB if we could find them and they were as fast as newer cards)
So, it can and certainly has happened, but rarely enough to not worry about it - go out and enjoy shooting pix without concern of the gear.
