Erratic CF Card

[Geoff Marland]

My first digital camera was a Coolscan 5000, with the camera I got a 128meg card and a 256. The 128 was actually indicating a lot more available exposures than the 256 so I went back to the shop and asked the question, why?

After puzzling over it for a while the sales guy eventually said "dont worry about it, evertything is working ok and you are actually getting more than you paid for."

Now I have a D70 and purchased a 512meg card. With settings on Fine and Large the 256 indicates 73 exposures, the 512 shows 145 (roughly double, no surprise there). The 128 shows approx 186 possible exposures.

As the guy said everything is working so no need to worry but it sure is intriguing. All I can think is the 128 was wrongly labelled.

Anybody got any thoughts to share.

[sheepie]

OK - so that's what the cameras are reporting as available, but what do you actually achieve?

If the reporting is accurate, you have been lucky

If not, you have something screwy going on there

[Nnnnsic]

I'm going to be a pedantic FUDmin and say that you had the Coolpix 5000... not the Coolscan 5000. It might look a tad silly trying to use one of the current Nikon slide scanners as a camera.

[sheepie]

I'm going to be a pedantic FUDmin and say that you had the Coolpix 5000... not the Coolscan 5000. It might look a tad silly trying to use one of the current Nikon slide scanners as a camera.

picky picky picky!

(but good pickup!)

[Geoff Marland]

You are quite right of course I got my wires crossed it was the Coolpix

[sirhc55]

Geoff - when you load the CF card into a card reader and the Nikon disk appears on the desktop it will show the approx capacity of the card in Mb. This is what happens on a mac, I am not familiar as to how a PC shows the CF card.

That is one way of checking your card

[gstark]

Geoff,

What Chris says ... load it into a CF reader. Right click on the drive, select Properties. What does it say?

[Geoff Marland]

Thanks for the suggestions. I checked my 128MB card in a card reader and it shows the capacity as 639MB.

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