The only thing that's standard about a CF card is the hardware
interface. What the software decides to do with that interface is
another thing. I don't know of any camera that formats a CF card as
other than FAT12 or FAT32 so, in that respect at least, the card should
be fully readable on any computer that can handle those formats**. But
I believe all of the cameras place a few special folders on the card
after they have done the basic format. That's something that your
computer can have no knowledge of. Whether your camera is actually
dependent on those specific folders is another question. It may or may
not be. But why try to find out? Use the CF card in whichever device
you like as long as you format it in the camera first if you're going to
use it there for recording pictures.
** Note that certain software protocols may impose limits beyond the
disk format. Windows XP PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol) does not
understand or recognize any file type that is not JPEG)
Chuck Norcutt
Allan Mee wrote:
> The CF card in my 300D was already formatted - but I formatted it in the
> camera anyway just to be safe. No problems so far. I would expect CF to be
> trouble-free anyway - since it's the most widely used standard on DSLRs. My
> little Oly Camedia P & S has an XD card - but again, it's only ever held in
> the camera and formatted in that so shouldn't be an issue.
> Allan
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>> From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [OM] Re: XD card troubles
>> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 03:13:34 -0800
>>
>> Phil wrote:
>>> I had a 2 gig CF card given to me, I have been using it to transfer
>> files to
>>> and from work, I was going to start using it in my E1
>>> is it safe to do this? or should I format it firts, in PC or E1
>>>
>> I'm not aware of any especially tricky problems with CF cards. Certainly
>> nothing like the xD cards in Oly digicams. I also don't know anything
>> about xD cards in Oly DSLRs. Probably nobody does, as they are much
>> slower in that application than the CF cards.
>>
>> I've heard it's a good idea to format the card in the camera before
>> relying on it for your images. I've only personally used CF cards with
>> Canyon DSLRs, which seems quite a robust situation.
>>
>> Interestingly enough, Oly sells a little thumb drive, MAUSB-300, that
>> uses xD cards, and the instructions say nothing at all about care using
>> the cards as data repositories, then in one of their cameras. I have
>> only used the 16 mb card that came with the F10 in it for data. I've
>> left the DCIM subdirectory intact and the Fujis still find it
>> acceptable. I have not, however taken the chance of using the 1 gb cards
>> for data, using the thumb drive only for downloading and then erasing
>> images in the cameras only.
>>
>> Moose
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