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Thanks for replying, but the above statement couldn't be further from the truth. Digital storage is digital storage, it is either perfect, or not. If it is not perfect, basically if the medium is damaged, the image in unreadable or at least has errors. Formatting beforehand has NO EFFECT whatsoever on the quality of the images. Whoever told you that has no concept of how a computer and its storage works, which is essentially what we're all using to take pictures with.Originally Posted by JSPhoto
If you forma cards to try to keep noise down, you are wasting your time on something that is physically impossible. However, formatting in camera regularly is a great way to maintain the integrity of the media, just like formatting a hard drive once or twice a year does.
That's what a lot of digital shooters don't get, we are now using portable PCs, and a thourough understanding of how a computer works is necessary to understand how and why things happen when they do...
EDIT: To make it easier to understand, digital storage deals with 0s and 1s, ON and OFF basically. There is no inbetween, that's why if a copy is made, it's in every way shape and form identical to the original. A file will be stored in the way it was sent off form the sensor and processing engine, the state of the media will have no effect on it, it literally can't, with the exception of errors. If the 0s and 1s on the card are not switching properly, that means the data that is stored will be different that what was sent from the sensor/processor. This does NOT mean quality will degrade, it is far worse than that, the image will be unreadable at worst, or have huge areas of it missing or garbled at best. There is no inbetween. It'd be nice if there was, since we basically can't afford to have faulty media or we'll lose one or more images entirely. Film was nice in this respect, a scratch could be removed, a fried CF card is basically garbage, along with the images on it.
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