10D max. CF Card capacity

[nucki]

Hi!

I was just thinking about if there is a limitation of the capacity of a CF Card wich a 10D can deal with?
Just for interest...


does anybody konw?

best regards
Peter

[J.A.F. Doorhof]

It has FAT32 so I GUESS no limit at the moment.

Greetings,
Frank

[CyberDyneSystems]

Indeed it should wokr with all cards avaible and any in the foreseeable future. (FAT 32 limit? 80 gigs? or 160? can't remember)

[nucki]

Thanks!

so 80-160 GB thats pretty much! so no need to worry.
But if they come out, they will cost 10.000$ or so ;-)

best regards
Peter

[MarkH]

32GB is as big as I would like to go.

Neither Win2K nor WinXP will format a single partition over 32GB with the FAT32 file system.

The question is: How many thousand pictures do you need to store on one card?

[David Wild]

MarkH wrote:
32GB is as big as I would like to go.

Neither Win2K nor WinXP will format a single partition over 32GB with the FAT32 file system.

The question is: How many thousand pictures do you need to store on one card?


In 4 days in the south of France in May I took 231 pictures - it would have been about 100 more if the weather had treated us more kindly.

I think that, if I had expected to take more pictures, I would rather spread the pictures over more than one card to reduce the risk from card failure - even though I don't think that the risk is very high.

[Canuck]

Hi!
I was looking in one of my Computer reference books (Upgrading and Repairing PCs, 12th Ed, Scott Meuller and I do thank him ever so much for the info!) The FAT32 partitions on a HD can theoretically be a whopping 2 TB (2,048 GB)!!! Well, I wonder if you could partition it out and have a theoretically innfinite amount of space?

Now this is computer stuff, but jump to NTFS (NT File System) and that can hold 16EB (Exabytes, or 17,179,869, 184 TeraBytes, or if you wish, 17,179,869,184,000 GB)!! I can't begin to fathom that kind of memory, but heck in the early 1990s, what was a Gigabyte? Heck, we had a Mac Plus in the 80s and it has a whopping 40 MB HD. Wow, that was huge in those days. As I sit here, I'm looking at 2 ea 512MB CF cards. Man how times have changed!

Cheers from England,
Canuck

[J.A.F. Doorhof]

More space is alway's nice, I don't know for you but when I go out to the zoo for a day I normally come back with arround 200-300 shots. I would not dare to think about what would happen when I go on a Holiday :D.

That's why I absolutly love the Xsdrive solution.

At the moment I'm using a 512MB CF card which can hold somewhere in between 70-80 shots in RAW, I would like to see that upgraded to a 1 GB card for more I have the Xsdrive.

Greetings,
Frank

[defordphoto]

David Wild wrote:
I think that, if I had expected to take more pictures, I would rather spread the pictures over more than one card to reduce the risk from card failure - even though I don't think that the risk is very high.


Putting more pictures on a CF doesn't increase the risk of CF failure. Sure it's bound to happen someday, but I sure wouldn't let it guide my shooting practices or be overly paranoid about it. I usually fills my cards to 100% or near 100% (change during a slow moment in the action) and have not had any failures, though it will happen someday, it doesn't control how I shoot. if I lose shots I lose shots. Cry a little and then move on. Get a new card and fill that sucker up.

[David Wild]

RFMSports wrote:
David Wild wrote:
I think that, if I had expected to take more pictures, I would rather spread the pictures over more than one card to reduce the risk from card failure - even though I don't think that the risk is very high.


Putting more pictures on a CF doesn't increase the risk of CF failure. Sure it's bound to happen someday, but I sure wouldn't let it guide my shooting practices or be overly paranoid about it. I usually fills my cards to 100% or near 100% (change during a slow moment in the action) and have not had any failures, though it will happen someday, it doesn't control how I shoot. if I lose shots I lose shots. Cry a little and then move on. Get a new card and fill that sucker up.

I'm not suggesting that the risk of failure is increased - just the risk of loss from a faulty card.