What's puzzling about this whole thread (or at least revealing
my ignorance of high-tech modern electronics) is that I've ever
formatted a memory card of any type. When purchasing all three of the
digital cameras in our household (Oly 700uz, Kodak Easyshare Something
and Oly E-500), the cards were all bought separately. I have never used
the "format" function in any camera; simply plugged the card in and away
I go shooting. A few times I have used the "erase all" function but I
don't think this is the same as reformatting. I have always assumed that
these cards were like pre-formatted diskettes but this thread seems to
indicate that camera makers put their own "juju" on the card. We have a
Nik*n C**lpix we use at work and we routinely use the CF card to carry
non-photo data from work to home computers via Sandisk card readers.
We've had no problems using the card in the Nik*n and I even used it in
an E-300 store model when I was checking it out. Again, no problem. I'm
so confused.
Charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Winsor Crosby
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:34 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: formatting
I have noticed that my C-7000Z takes a long time, at least a minute
or two to reformat its card. Is that typical of the other Olympus
digital cameras? It is not much of a problem since I even reformat
the spare before putting it away. The several Coolpixes and Nikons I
have used take just a couple of seconds.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Jul 12, 2006, at 6:29 AM, Walt Wayman wrote:
> I have always put the card back in the camera to erase it. I've
> wondered if I was being unnecessarily, and uncharacteristically,
> over-cautious. Glad to know that I have been doing something right,
> even if I was too dumb to know why. Two 1GB and three 2GB cards and
> nary a problem -- at least, not yet. :-)
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To be on the safe side never allow the computer to write anything
>> to the
>> CF card by either formatting or even erasing images. There's no
>> valid
>> reason to do so. It can only lead to trouble.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
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