This is reasonably common limitation on older digital cameras
The limitation is that the camera can only reading FAT 16 disk format
which has a limit of 2GB.
Any CF card above this will be FAT 32.
You can, theoretically, reformat these drives as fat16 (formats them
as 2GB drives) .
As to what cameras accept FAT16 or FAT 32.... google helps if it's
not listed in the manual
...
I have the following "old" CF equiped cameras
Canon EOS D60 released mid 2002
Canon Powershot G3 released late 2002
Canon Powershot A80 released late 2003
by dumb trial an error (ie bough the cards found they didn't work in
one or other camera I discovered that:
The D60 and the A80 are limited to FAT16
but the G3, released a whole year before the A80 and only a couple of
months after the D60 has FAT32 support.
On 13/09/2009, at 11:31 PM, Philippe Chaperon wrote:
Hi Lloyd,
Well I had the same problem only a few weeks ago when the 4GB San
Disk I purchased for ... $18 at BigW, was not accepted by my Lumix
FZ30. Turns out the FZ30 accepts cards up to 2 GB also, like yours.
And what's more my multi-card reader San Disk ImageMate purchased 18
months ago for $69 would not read the 4 GB card also.
I ended up by giving my card to someone whose camera accepts the 4GB
ones, and he insisted in giving me a couple of 2GB cards to
compensate!
I guess that's the price we have to pay for the 'convenience' of a
fast progressing technology.
Best of luck,
Philippe C
2009/9/13 rkor...@iinet.net.au <rkor...@iinet.net.au>
Hi Lloyd
just did a quick check and it maybe only able to use 2gb cards max!!!
could be wrong as its not very clear
RegRDS
ROGER
On Sun Sep 13 16:48 , Lloyd White <lloydwh...@iinet.net.au> sent:
>
>Fools rush in where angels fear to tread! Again!
>
>I have Nikon CoolPix 5700 camera that uses CompactFlash. Currently
using
>SanDisk 512MB.
>
>Recently in Dubai - with full assurances from the sales person that
it would
>work - I bought a 4 GB SanDisk Ultra II Compact Flash.
>
>After insertion the message came up "out of memory" so I formatted
the card
>within the camera.
>
>Still no joy. Should it work with the 5700?
>
>If not does anyone have a use for it. It costs $31 duty free and I
would
>accept offers.
>
>Otherwise I will have a 4GB back-up disk; which is useful for ?????
>
>Regards
>
>Lloyd
>
>
>
>
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