The CF card in my 300D was already formatted - but I formatted it in the
camera anyway just to be safe. No problems so far. I would expect CF to be
trouble-free anyway - since it's the most widely used standard on DSLRs. My
little Oly Camedia P & S has an XD card - but again, it's only ever held in
the camera and formatted in that so shouldn't be an issue.
Allan
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>From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: XD card troubles
>Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 03:13:34 -0800
>
>Phil wrote:
> > I had a 2 gig CF card given to me, I have been using it to transfer
>files to
> > and from work, I was going to start using it in my E1
> > is it safe to do this? or should I format it firts, in PC or E1
> >
>I'm not aware of any especially tricky problems with CF cards. Certainly
>nothing like the xD cards in Oly digicams. I also don't know anything
>about xD cards in Oly DSLRs. Probably nobody does, as they are much
>slower in that application than the CF cards.
>
>I've heard it's a good idea to format the card in the camera before
>relying on it for your images. I've only personally used CF cards with
>Canyon DSLRs, which seems quite a robust situation.
>
>Interestingly enough, Oly sells a little thumb drive, MAUSB-300, that
>uses xD cards, and the instructions say nothing at all about care using
>the cards as data repositories, then in one of their cameras. I have
>only used the 16 mb card that came with the F10 in it for data. I've
>left the DCIM subdirectory intact and the Fujis still find it
>acceptable. I have not, however taken the chance of using the 1 gb cards
>for data, using the thumb drive only for downloading and then erasing
>images in the cameras only.
>
>Moose
>
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