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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: eronald on March 18, 2012, 02:31:56 pm

Title: Warning - be careful of XQD cards !
Post by: eronald on March 18, 2012, 02:31:56 pm

Warning! You can push an XQD card into a CF slot by mistake and wreck the CF pins. (http://edmund-nikon-d4.blogspot.fr/2012/03/warning-xqd-cards-can-harm-your-d4.html)

For now this warning only applies to the Nikon D4.

Edmund

Title: Re: Warning - be careful of XQD cards !
Post by: Brian Hirschfeld on March 18, 2012, 11:32:09 pm

Will definitely watch out when mine comes in. Maybe some change in dimensions or at least color coding couldn't have hurt?

Title: Re: Warning - be careful of XQD cards !
Post by: eronald on March 19, 2012, 09:25:05 am

Quote from: Brian Hirchfeld on March 18, 2012, 11:32:09 pm

Will definitely watch out when mine comes in. Maybe some change in dimensions or at least color coding couldn't have hurt?

Yes, it's really interesting they engineered a device which poses a risk to the one it is supposed to replace.

Edmund

Title: Re: Warning - be careful of XQD cards !
Post by: kers on March 19, 2012, 11:09:01 am

Is it also possible to stick XQD cards in the CF slot?

Then you are really lucky !

Title: Re: Warning - be careful of XQD cards !
Post by: Brian Hirschfeld on March 19, 2012, 08:03:13 pm

Quote from: kers on March 19, 2012, 11:09:01 am

Is it also possible to stick XQD cards in the CF slot?

Then you are really lucky !

Stick in, but not use. They have different contacts.