Sony RANT!!!

When I was considering a D4 that stupid card thing was a real turnoff.

All that said, and as much as I HATE Sony, seems like your issues here have to do with a lot of vendors and manufacturers, and not Sony alone. Plus, expecting you to pay to send the card back isn't unusual. I didn't read all of your wall of text there, but did you ask about a cross-ship? Usually you can provide a credit card number and they'll ship you a new one immediately, and just charge you if you don't return the bad card.
 
shouldn't be too big of a deal.
I never worry too much about cards when im on a paid gig.
If i get even the slightest hint that a card is acting funny, I just throw in another card and deal with it later.
I certainly would not go on any paid assignment with only one card. that's just asking for trouble. Fo realz, yo.


on a side note....why the $^#% arent cameras coming with built in HD's like....oh, i dunno....every other device on the planet?
 
shouldn't be too big of a deal. I never worry too much about cards when im on a paid gig. If i get even the slightest hint that a card is acting funny, I just throw in another card and deal with it later. I certainly would not go on any paid assignment with only one card. that's just asking for trouble. Fo realz, yo. on a side note....why the $^#% arent cameras coming with built in HD's like....oh, i dunno....every other device on the planet?

I am betting that soon all dslr will have built in hard drives. I am shocked that they haven't made a battery grip style hard drive system. Might be the size or power requirements. But yeah, expect cameras with terabytes of storage in the future.
 
Absolutely, they have some great products, but the stinkers they've produced tend to eclipse their successes. If they'd stop worrying about quite so proprietary....

Don't even get me started on sony codecs...
Ohhh...Sony codecs.......do tell. What in the world could be wrong with Sony codecs???:)

Inquiring minds want to know?????

nothing as long as you have a PC or aperture if you run mac and arent a noob. I did work with a naive nikon shooter once that didnt realize that different cameras have different codecs and thought I gave her a flash drive that was empty cause her mac did not recognize the format. Never worked with her again.
 
Why do you only have one card?

Oh no, I have dozens of compact flash cards. Just only one XQD. Bc they are super expensive and in my opinion I think they will be obsolete here pretty quick.

I just don't want to go to a wedding not using both card slots. My camera was deigned for two cards, I want two working cards, is that too much to ask for? Haha


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When I was considering a D4 that stupid card thing was a real turnoff.

All that said, and as much as I HATE Sony, seems like your issues here have to do with a lot of vendors and manufacturers, and not Sony alone. Plus, expecting you to pay to send the card back isn't unusual. I didn't read all of your wall of text there, but did you ask about a cross-ship? Usually you can provide a credit card number and they'll ship you a new one immediately, and just charge you if you don't return the bad card.

No they wouldn't do that. I explained to them I couldn't go without the card for 8 weeks and that they could send me a new one and hold my credit card info if I failed to return the old. And they refused and said it was against their policy.


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Yeah, well... there is also my default statement: Sony sucks. :)
 
Yeah, well... there is also my default statement: Sony sucks. :)

I'm starting to see that. I'll never buy another sony product again. Boycott haha


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Well, that's an awesome idea... except that you also bought a D4. Is anyone else except Sony making those cards yet???
 
Well, that's an awesome idea... except that you also bought a D4. Is anyone else except Sony making those cards yet???

I think Lexar is making one. But I believe it's a few bucks more than the Sony. And I think that's it. No one else is.


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Oh well, if Lexar is, then you're in good shape. They're reliable and will tend to produce things for quite a while.
 
Oh well, if Lexar is, then you're in good shape. They're reliable and will tend to produce things for quite a while.

Time to head to eBay with my Sony card, I'll have to specify it's only for SONY cameras otherwise you may get a error message hahahahhaha


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Did you happen to switch capture formats while a buffer of images was writing to the card, such as switching from full-field to crop-mode? Or did you happen to accidentally turn the camera off in the middle of a write-to-card cycle? Bothy of those moves have caused me warning errors.

On the old D2x, I once shot the start of a 110 meter hurdles race in 2.0x high speed crop, then switched to full-field at the end...it "ate" the finish of the race because it was writing the images to the card, I guess. I was able to replicate the issue multiple times.

Wondering too: do you delete images IN THE FIELD??? In days gone by, that used to cause occasional problems with early Nikon d-slr cameras, and we all learned NEVER to delete images in the field, but to just fill a card, then download it to the computer and to do ALL, as in ALL deleting, at the computer, and never using the camera to delete from the card.

I would trust a Lexar card or a SanDisk brand card very much, but to me, some of the other card makers are sketchy.
 
The customer is always right even if they are wrong.

Sorry, but that's absolutely incorrect. The customer isn't always right.

Sometimes, the customer is dishonest. Sometimes the customer has used a product in such a manner which would void a warranty. Sometimes customers simply have unrealistic expectations.

I'm not suggesting that any of these apply to you. I'm merely pointing out that customers are, in fact very often wrong. A company which simply accepts any and every claim made by a customer is destined to suffer losses...
 

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