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Compact Flash card question
Debra L Rothenberg, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 11:59 AM on 03.15.10 |
| ->> this morning I was on a shoot and another photographer was having a problem with his compact flash card. I offered one of mine from my D3 or D3s (unused, in the second card slot). He was using a D300s and said something could go wrong (images lost?) if he swapped cards from a D3 to a D3s or either to a D300s. I never heard this before. Is he misinformed? Or am I? |
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Mike Last, Photographer, Assistant
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Toronto | ON | Canada | Posted: 12:13 PM on 03.15.10 |
->> Soemtimes you can't see images in camera shot on newer cameras and viewed on older cameras due to NEFs, but thats the only case I know of. The photos would still be on the card.
By shooting some on a CF card, and putting it into another Nikon camera, the camera just creates a new folder with the new cameras name and lets you shoot. Unless you formatted the CF card in camera, then you would lose images.
Sometimes going from Nikon to Canon mid-shoot will require you to format, but that may only be on older cameras. |
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Bob Ford, Photographer
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Lehighton | Pa | USA | Posted: 12:13 PM on 03.15.10 |
| ->> I take cards from my D3 to D300 all of the time without issue. I can't imagine the "S's" would be any different. I always try to format in whatever camera they will be used in, but even when I've forgotten they still work. |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 12:33 PM on 03.15.10 |
->> The only time that you will have an issue is when the cards are formatted with differing file systems. FAT16 versus FAT32. Older cameras will only support FAT16 and will not be able to read or write to a card formatted to FAT32 spec. All of our newer bodies format cards to FAT32 as it is the current universal format for large capacity volumes.
The example that you give should not pose any issues, however if you had a card formatted in your D3 and were to try to use it in a D1X or D1H then you would run into formatting issues. The same would hold true if you were crossing Canon/Nikon lines, the file system is the limiting factor. This was also the reason that older cameras could not access and write on the larger cards. Hence a 4gig card in a D1X caps out at 2gb if I remember correctly. |
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Debra L Rothenberg, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 2:30 PM on 03.15.10 |
->> that's what I thought-that is would just create a new folder
thanks Mike, Bob and Eric |
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Robert Hanashiro, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 2:41 AM on 03.17.10 |
->> An oldie but goodie from the Sports Shooter Newsletter Archives.
There is still some good info in this story my colleague Bob Deutsch wrote on the "Care & Feeding Of Flash Cards:
http://www.sportsshooter.com/news/1217
The Newsletter Archive is a great source of information ... and is searchable!
Mahalo! |
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