Largest CF Card for EOS 300D

Hi

I have a 300D and use a 4gb Toshiba CF Card.

Whilst on holiday the CF card wouldn't accept more than 1.7gb of Raw photos Have had a look around to see if there is a limit on the CF Card size for the 300D, as yet I can't find anything to inform me of a size limit

Not sure if it was size or the heat approx 40 Celsius each day.

Any help appreciated.

8 GB or less is fine. See here.

Perhaps Toshiba is reselling SanDisk brand cards. SanDisk 4GB cards have a switch on the edge that allows you to treat the card as a normal 4GB card or as two 2GB cards in one package.

It's also possible that the card was formatted other than in-camera.

There are some interesting discussions around about the size of cards to use. I use 1gig cards which means I have to replace the card every 100 or so shots -- better than every 36 shots with film. The full cards are kept in a safe place away from the camera. Thus if the camera is stolen I would only lose 1 or 2 days shooting.

Where did you buy your CF card? It's VERY common on EBay now for knock-offs of name brands to be sold, and many of them aren't the stated capacity.

Also, it's pretty wise to 'diversify' your CF cards. Having all of your pictures on an 8GB or 16GB card could be a huge problem if that one card is lost or somehow irrecoverably corrupted. Having several 1-4GB cards can save you from that.

Doug Pardee wrote in post #3897737
8 GB or less is fine. See here.

Perhaps Toshiba is reselling SanDisk brand cards. SanDisk 4GB cards have a switch on the edge that allows you to treat the card as a normal 4GB card or as two 2GB cards in one package.

It's also possible that the card was formatted other than in-camera.

theoretically, all the canon cameras with CF can support up to 32gb. they can't reformat higher than 8gb though (mkiii can, and i suspect the 40d and 1dsmkiii can as well). if you format a camera over 8gb in one of older cameras you will get a primary partition of 8gb (7.8 really) and 4gb of unpartitioned space

DanC922 wrote in post #3897853
Where did you buy your CF card? It's VERY common on EBay now for knock-offs of name brands to be sold, and many of them aren't the stated capacity.

Never purchase any media from Flea-Bay, obtained this Card from a company called Memorybits

http://www.memorybits.​co.uk

DanC922 wrote in post #3897853
Also, it's pretty wise to 'diversify' your CF cards. Having all of your pictures on an 8GB or 16GB card could be a huge problem if that one card is lost or somehow irrecoverably corrupted. Having several 1-4GB cards can save you from that.

So far I have 2 x Lexar 256mb 1 x Toshiba 4gig. Have always formatted any new card with the camera.

Cheers for the link Doug Pardee

basroil wrote in post #3897981
theoretically, all the canon cameras with CF can support up to 32gb. they can't reformat higher than 8gb though (mkiii can, and i suspect the 40d and 1dsmkiii can as well). if you format a camera over 8gb in one of older cameras you will get a primary partition of 8gb (7.8 really) and 4gb of unpartitioned space

Not quite.The D60 and earlier can only cope with FAT16-formatted volumes. The gyrations necessary to format anything over a 2 GB card in FAT16 just aren't worth the effort. I don't recall if the 300D formats the card FAT16 or FAT32 natively.

Jon wrote in post #3907922
Not quite.The D60 and earlier can only cope with FAT16-formatted volumes.

For those unfamiliar with "earlier", that's the D60, D30 and the original 1D. And the old Kodak/Canon DSLRs.

All of the Digic-based DSLRs—including the DReb/300D—can format FAT32, at least up to 8GB. The original 1Ds can, also, with the last firmware update. This capability was presumably to allow microdrive support. Write speed to FAT32 cards may be disappointing on the original 1Ds, 10D, and DReb/300D.