After two long days of driving the mothership landed in Montana and I have yet to wet a fly on the mighty Madison River. Today’s seed pod was taken in my field and what about the size of a softball so I thought it would make a great August calendar. You can download the calendar by clicking HERE
August 2009 Desktop Calendar
While I was traveling I received a few questions about gear, composition etc. So, I’ve decided that every Friday I’ll try to field a few questions from my readers. One the questions I received was whether or not I formatted my memory cards after each use. The answer is a strong yes! You should always reformat a new card. Plus, you should always reformat your card after each use (obviously, only after you’ve confirmed your photos have been downloaded and backed up properly) The reason for the reformat is to avoid file corruption and errors. Also, a card that’s never been reformatted looses capacity overtime (even if you’ve deleted images). Most importantly, always…and I mean always reformat the card that’s being used between two different cameras regardless of make or model. I use the same memory between my Canon 20D and 5D but I always reformat the card between uses and swaps. Reformatting should be done from you camera’s menu options so if you don’t know how to reformat your memory then dust off your owners manual read up on it. The last thing you want to do is lose images due to file corruption that can be avoid so when in doubt back-up your images and reformat!
Have a wonderful weekend….I’ll be fishing!
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Great advice. Thank you. Good luck with the fish!
Oh, I need all the luck I can get…;)
you are shortening the life of your memory cards by doing that. flash cards are only good for so many writes, and reformatting uses up lots of those cycles (yes, even allocation realignment). You won't get corrupted photos anyway, a 1 is a 1 and a 0 is a 0 regardless of how many times it's overwritten. File corruption can only occur when the magnetic remnants are too weak to tell the difference between a one and a zero. Continuously formatting will get you there a lot faster.