32GB Compact Flash

Purchased for use at my company. I took advantage of this to test it.

My 5D and XT behaved the same.

I installed it into the 5D, shows 999 shots remaining. Took tons, still 999. Assuming 14mb per RAW+JPG that's over 2000 shots. So it was going to be a long time before I filled it up. Put it into the XT, same thing. The CF is formatted Fat32.

When I used Camera formatting, the cameras did the same thing. Formatted the card to 8GB. This means it partitioned the CF to 8GB and formatted.

Using XP to format, it would not let me increase the size (obviously it does not partition). The Mac was friendlier and allowed me to change the size. On XP to fix this I downloaded usb_format from the web.

Sorry I don't have time to use up 2000 pictures to make sure it fills up, but I believe that it will.

Recommendation: I do not think its a good idea to use more than 8GB cards in the tested cameras. To easy to make a 32GB card 8GB and I'm sure that if the camera formats 8GB, that is what Canon supports.

So now you know. Ok you may have already known this.

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Yep, thats exactly why I only have 8GB cards. Too many eggs in one basket.

does this apply to 20d/20da/30d?

A 16GB card shows 999 photos (RAW) on my 40D also. I have to shoot a couple hundred before the counter goes below 999. Fortunately, the 40D can format 16GB cards also (to 16GB that is).

fat32 max partiions size is 32G so thgere shouldnt be an issue, Canon camera should suppor any size fine as long as it fat32 format (wich they would go to ntfs or somethihng more reliable!)

FAT32's max. partition size is around 2 TB; 32 GB is the maximum Windows XP or 2K can configure it as using the GUI tools. If you have a FAT32 drive of larger than 32 GB, they can use it just fine. These drives can be set up with Win98 or above, or with third-party partition managers.

NTFS is a proprietary format, and isn't natively supported as a R/W format by all oerating systems, notably Mac OS and various xNIX variants. FAT, OTOH, is effectively open to all. Microsoft didn't secure it from the world in time.

HighLife wrote in post #5057036
does this apply to 20d/20da/30d?

I live in Fremont, Ca.

If you can get a Xti, Xsi, 1dMIII, 1dsMII, 20D, 30D into my hands that I can test it.

Another engineer had his 40D in yesterday. It does the same thing. Accepts 32GB showing 999 frames left, but when camera format is used it formats to 8GB.

I saw someone else mention that their 40D formats a 16GB card to 8GB. Mine doesn't - it formats to 16GB just fine. Firmware differences maybe?

Riff Raff wrote in post #5062524
I saw someone else mention that their 40D formats a 16GB card to 8GB. Mine doesn't - it formats to 16GB just fine. Firmware differences maybe?

My 40D also formats my 16GB card to 16GB.

Riff Raff wrote in post #5062524
I saw someone else mention that their 40D formats a 16GB card to 8GB. Mine doesn't - it formats to 16GB just fine. Firmware differences maybe?

qwalls wrote in post #5062818
My 40D also formats my 16GB card to 16GB.

What are your firmware versions?

qwalls wrote in post #5062818
My 40D also formats my 16GB card to 16GB.

Well this means I'm going to have to test my friends 40D again.

Jon wrote in post #5063157
What are your firmware versions?

1.05, but it worked fine before the update also.

Riff Raff wrote in post #5062524
I saw someone else mention that their 40D formats a 16GB card to 8GB. Mine doesn't - it formats to 16GB just fine. Firmware differences maybe?

The 5D does that.

Can I ask how much you paid for a 32gb? I just bought two 16gb's and wouldn't mind a 32 for travelling!

TeeTee wrote in post #5073041
Can I ask how much you paid for a 32gb? I just bought two 16gb's and wouldn't mind a 32 for travelling!

I just bought 3 sandisk extreme III 16gb cards for 149.97 each and get a 300.00 rebate!!!! I personally will not use a card that large in my camera but my business partner and I bought them easy temporary for file storage and transferes in place of CD's.