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Smartmedia cards How long does a smart media card last? When it has been used for quite a while does it affect the quality of the photographs?.....Thanks...Jean
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Michael Kaplan |
What I am telling you is not guaranteed. Anything can happen (or not) but they are well made and should last for may years. No, after time the photos do not change in quality. That is the thing about digital. When you have anything down to the 0's and 1's of digital they never change as long as you can still read those numbers. That is the thing. If a card goes bad they can develop a bad sector just like a hard drive or floppy disk so that picture may become unreadable. They can also have a problem where you can no longer read or write to them as they can fail completely. This is a rare occurrence but that is why some people like to shoot on a few smaller cards rather than 1 large one. Me, I have a 1 GB Microdrive and if it goes I'll have to live with it. In the meanwhile, you would be surprised how many people worry about this yet don't backup their pictures to CD right away. I know a lot more people that have hard drive crashes on their PC and have lost stuff. I don't personally know anyone that had a media card fail on them, yet. Michael Kaplan Montreal, Canada Canon EOS-10D http://www.pbase.com/mkaplan
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