Poll: do you format your Memory cards in Camera yes/no

I was always told to format my memory cards IN camera, but notice some format in the PC after a download, how do you do yours?

Yes. Formatting removes the gunk.

Always, format in the camera, and I format every time the card goes in.

I only format my cards in the camera.... The camera is the primary user of the cards, so it gets to format!

However, I don't format them every time. Most of the time, I erase the card after copying the images to my computer using a card reader, and then stick the card back in the camera.

Actually, I 'move' the files to a storage folder using windows explorer, then reformatt the now 'blank' cards as soon as they go back in a camera. it is not really necessary, only the photo files moved, but it is like belts and suspenders and I do it that way every time.

I always format my card in camera after importing to Lightroom.

I format in camera, simply because that's the quickest and easiest way to delete the current files on the card.

Of course, these files aren't actually deleted, it's just that the directory is zeroed out.

-js

Everything I have read indicates formatting in the camera, not the computer, is the way to go.

Always in camera, but who clicked "in computer" in the poll? I'd like to know their reasoning.

Yup...me too since 1997.

Camera Only for me, Vista messed it up so badly, it ruined half the pictures I took, not that they were any good, but it kind of let me to believe the camera did the better job, had none since

I use a card reader to DL, and then format in computer after DL'ing all my images and backing up. I then reformat in camera when using the CF in its next rotation.

In the camera - ONLY

Duncan Frenz wrote in post #7536541
I use a card reader to DL, and then format in computer after DL'ing all my images and backing up. I then reformat in camera when using the CF in its next rotation.

Why do you format in computer to then format in camera?

Camera only as soon as I put it in--after removing from card reader. I'm kind of OCD on that score--always start shooting with a clean, formatted card. So a question--does formatting degrade the card any faster? If you format after say 20 shots over and over again, seldom filling it?