Those fragile SDHC cards...

Check this out...

Shipwrecked camera found underwater after 2 years with photos intact

My main complaint about SD cards isn't whether or not they're fragile, but the size and slow speed potential. I would have much preferred if something closer to CF had stayed the mainstream. (And those micro cards are just evil... That much data should not be stored on something small enough to easily lose in short grass or be blown around by a stiff breeze.)

I was testing a dashboard cam in my car a few weeks ago and went to take out the brand new SD card I bought for it and the thing shot out and I think it fell in the shifter housing. I can't find that little 32GB POS anywhere...

CameraMan wrote in post #16926912
I was testing a dashboard cam in my car a few weeks ago and went to take out the brand new SD card I bought for it and the thing shot out and I think it fell in the shifter housing. I can't find that little 32GB POS anywhere...

Same thing happened to me. I used a vacuum cleaner to extract it from the crevice. Worked like a charm.

I'll have to try that.

CameraMan wrote in post #16927671
I'll have to try that.

Put a pair of nylons over the end of the vacuum so it won't get sucked up all the way. It will just be sucked up against the nylons. Hope this tip helps

rc dude wrote in post #16929223
Put a pair of nylons over the end of the vacuum so it won't get sucked up all the way. It will just be sucked up against the nylons. Hope this tip helps

Haha I just used a clean vacuum cleaner and pulled it out of the collector.

I washed SD cards that were left in my shirt pocket before and they still worked fine.

I'm kind of ham fisted, so SD cards would be easy for me to drop or lose.

p.s. cool story RTP!

CameraMan wrote in post #16926912
I was testing a dashboard cam in my car a few weeks ago and went to take out the brand new SD card I bought for it and the thing shot out and I think it fell in the shifter housing. I can't find that little 32GB POS anywhere...

Why don't you just live-stream the dashcam video directly to the cloud instead of taking a chance on losing SD cards?

:p

I dropped a cheap one onto the road, it fell apart. Luckly I was putting an empty card into the camera.

Diamond-Lord wrote in post #16930051
Why don't you just live-stream the dashcam video directly to the cloud instead of taking a chance on losing SD cards?

:p

Camera doesn't have internet connection nor wireless capabilities...

and damn that would be some expensive internet.

peeaanuut wrote in post #16937032
and damn that would be some expensive internet.

It appears that in the near future, all cars will be WiFi access points --- so just livestream your dashcams to the nearest friendly motorist and they will relay it to a 5G or 6G cloud server!


http://www.forbes.com …rs-will-become-endpoints/

Modern SD and uSD card is made in the form of SIP package, meaning the entire card is a molded from filberglass/plastic substrate with all memory, controller and PCS within. None of the actual electrical components are exposed to the element except the contact pins. That is why flesh water and mud are not issue. Salt water wills till corrode the contact pins tho.

Older SD cards and CF use PCS with surface mount component inside the plastic housing, so the isolation to element is as good as the housing itself, which is not very good. So yes, in terms of standing up the elements, SD/uSD is better than CF nowaday