How reliable is the SD card?

Sorry to hear that

Sorry to hear that

Justyn and I (Norman) both (both in Orlando) have HMC150 and Transcend Class 6 SD card, we never had any problem. Maybe you are simply unlucky. Panasonic brand will give me some confidence, but they are pricy.

Good luck.


trevorward said:
I hope that wasn't a dig at me. If so, that's pretty rude. I'm not an idiot and I understand how to use cameras, computers, cards, etc. Perhaps I have been statistically unlucky. Or perhaps something is wrong with my camera. I know people have had no problems. That's great for them. That's the way it should be. But it's not great for me. And it makes me a big skeptic. I talked to the guys at panasonic and told them for he next 150, it should have 2 card slots with the option of recording to two cards as a redundancy backup. He said they went back and forth on that with heated debates. Obviously price point won.
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No stab trevor - surprised.

There isn't anything that has been identified as an underlying problem. Since it happened to you so many times I thought you may be doing that 1 thing that corrupts cards (maybe in your workflow) that we could learn from.

:)
 
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lifepo4 said:
Justyn and I (Norman) both (both in Orlando) have HMC150 and Transcend Class 6 SD card, we never had any problem. Maybe you are simply unlucky...
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I don't think you guys have the 'Taiwan' transcends though?

Orlando here too, with no problem with china and korea models...
 
So instead of the WHOLE wedding, we just miss out on the ceremony... Its still a problem either way.
 
Ok. No offense taken. Workflow is:

1. Insert card into camera.
2. Turn on camera.
3. Record.
4. Turn off camera.
5. Put card into computer.

The wedding I lost, I got an error half way through the reception with a card I had recorded over an hour on. Nothing weird there. The other, I used the workflow above. Am I doing something wrong? Seems simple enough to me.
 
I'm sorry to hear about your problems. Three different brand cards failing on you in 2 weeks would leave me to believe you have a defective camera. I would send it back.

Buck
 
trevorward said:
Ok. No offense taken. Workflow is:

1. Insert card into camera.
2. Turn on camera.
3. Record.
4. Turn off camera.
5. Put card into computer.

The wedding I lost, I got an error half way through the reception with a card I had recorded over an hour on. Nothing weird there. The other, I used the workflow above. Am I doing something wrong? Seems simple enough to me.
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You should add a step 2b to your work flow... format card. Have you formatted the cards in camera at all? The other thing is to break up one big card into smaller cards. I'm shooting some friends' wedding this Saturday, and plan on the ceremony being it's own separate card, and using a different card each for the pre-ceremony stuff and reception. That way if one craps out, there is still something to salvage.
 
I do format the cards in-camera. I can definitely see that shooting on cards is playing a risk game in a sense. With tape, you may experience drop outs or a bad section. But tape was pretty dang reliable for me. And I never lost a whole tape do to some problem.

But with the cards, there's always the risk of losing a whole card due to some problem. For this reason I sort of regret going to the card type of device. I don't know. I wish you could at least record to two cards, that way you have an immediate backup, without having to pull your laptop out and external hard drive and cables and power supplies and all that.

Or even sony's optical media seemed pretty reliable.
 
If you're formatting everything... then you're either extremely unlucky, or have a defective camera (or both). I've never had any issues with losing anything, and I have one of the original run of the camera... shooting two or three things a week every week.

I would call Panasonic and see if you can get it checked out.
 
Since hearing about card failures I'm checking playback on my first clip and whenever I have time thru out the day. Check the gate.
 
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