Largest Compact Flash for A40

[BMurfy]

I have an A40 and cannot find any details in the manual as to what the maximum size of compact flash that can be used.

I know that there is 256MB of flash not and I'm sure this will get bigger. What is the limit for the A40?

Thanks,
BM

[JohnMN]

I've never heard of any camera having an upper limit when it comes to compact flash. Some other storage systems, such as microdrives (I'm only guessing here) may have an upper limit. The upper limit that you are refering to is set by the card manufacturers and it may be 256 or 512MB for the CF cards, I can't remember which now. But hopefully the largest version would be adequete enough for what you wanted to do.

JohnMN

[Wildman]

There's no limit to the maximum size of comact flash cards that can be used in any camera. CF cards have the controller firmware onboard instead of in the camera as in Smart Cards.

There is, however, a practical limit. Really high capacity cards hold a lot of pictures and can present an organizational problem, especially if you have more than one CF. At my age I can forget what's on a card before I download the pictures.

I have one 256MB CF that I use as a primary and a 128MB one that serves as a backup. These two hold enough pictures for a couple of weeks worth of shooting with my Powershot Pro90 using RAW mode.

[MikeA]

I recall reading a message about this on another board. The author had successfully used a 1BG card in an A40.

[brutal]

i have taken pictures with 512 and 1 gig mem cards that I borrowed. they seem to work really well.

[BMurfy]

MikeA wrote:
I recall reading a message about this on another board. The author had successfully used a 1BG card in an A40.

Can you recall which board this was?