Caring for your cameras media card
As I talked about yesterday your camera is an investment. It has highly sensitive sensors and with proper care can last a long time. Of course you know that it is delicate and you avoid dropping and banging it. You keep it from getting wet and try all around to avoid damaging it. One thing that people often over look is the media card.
This to is a delicate piece of equipment and should be treated as such. There are contacts on the media cards that should be kept clean and dry. The media card should be treated as you would a roll of film. After all it is your film so to speak.
Do not remove it from your camera until the pictures are finished writing; and Likewise for your computer. Do not remove it until the computer has finished writing and transferring the images. Many media cards are damaged by removing them to soon or improperly removing them from your computer. Your computer has a program that allows you to safely remove detachable storages devices from it and that is the proper way it should be removed.
Another common way media cards are damaged and this is probably the most common, is people have a tendency to just drop them in their camera bags without properly putting them back into their cases. This can scratch the contacts, or crack the disk itself. If you do not want to use the plastic case or you loose the case that your media card came with buy a multi disk case to hold your cards. I have several of these cases and they do take up less room than the plastic cases that came with my disk. Most do not cost very much and will hold about 4 to 6 disks.
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Access road along I-37 in Corpus Christi, TX
With all the rain in Texas and Oklahoma at the end of June and the recent rain in South Texas, almost a month later, the Nueces river is still over flowing its banks.
Camera
Olympus E-500
14-45mm lens
UV Filter
digital photography, media cards, tips, flooding, Corpus Christi TX
