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wawawhee

5th of July 2006 (Wed), 13:15

I am a newbie that has a sd 450. Canon says that 2gb is the max, but I was on newegg and see that some have successfully used 4gb cards. I am interested in a transcend ts4gsd150 card. I have a 1gb transcend and I am very pleased. Does anyone have any experience with the 4gb card?

adas

5th of July 2006 (Wed), 18:15

Hi.
Read this thread, post #5 and onwards:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=184152

LewisImaging

5th of July 2006 (Wed), 20:43

look at it this way, would you rather have to change it once or twice and then lose one of those cards or have one go bad and still have half your pictures... or would you rather have then all on one card and then have an issue with that and lose all your pictures. remember the saying... don't put all your eggs in one basket.

DavidW

6th of July 2006 (Thu), 10:48

There's a technology cut-off in SD at 2GB. Above 2GB, the only standardised way is to switch to SD HC, which no current Canon camera supports.

This is not a FAT 16 versus FAT 32 issue - but a limit in the SD design. See this post of mine (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1653389) for more details.

In summary, keep to 2GB or smaller SD cards in the current crop of Canon cameras. It would be a disaster if your 4GB card appeared to work for a while, then when you passed 2GB full, it corrupted.

David