Re: Nikon CF Memory Cards

tomm42 wrote
(in article
<1153060340.232246.172900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

You still didn't answer, why not format in the camera,

I see no reason to format at all. The cards come formatted,
ready to go. Unless they develop bad blocks later, no need ever
to reformat. I wonder if formatting in camera can even handle
bad block marking, as formatting on a computer can?

faster than formating on a PC

Nothing is faster than not doing it at all.

(maybe not but infinitly faster at work where our IT
staff doesn't let you format anything).

I'm sorry you have a typically incompetent IT department. They
are so commonplace now though, I doubt we'll ever see good ones
again.

Deleting on a PC seems counter productive,

How could it possibly be counterproductive? It marks the blocks
as unused, very, very quickly, and you keep shooting.

formating is easier and doesn't leave the former file structure.

I think you need to read up on FAT. You are missing how
trivially simple it is.

On the D200 I just press menu (the shortcut takes longer on
my camera) have it set for format two down arrows and enter, the format
on a 2 gig card is finished before I look at the top LCD.

On my D70, I never format at all, so I push no buttons, no
arrows, and don't need to look at the LCD. YMMV.

Also if you read the manual Nikon strongly recommends formating in the
camera.

Yes, they also recommend taking your camera in to be serviced to
remove dust bunnies. Sometimes the manual is written to make
life easier on tech support by having people all use a common
method, even when it doesn't serve any other real world purpose.


I would imagine that if you have a read-write card error it would be one
of the first questions they would ask.

If I had a card error, I would try formatting with verify turned
on with a PC and see if it marked any blocks bad. I wouldn't
call Nikon first.

Never had a card failure (knock on wood).

I have, but it was one of the very first CF cards, years ago.


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Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)
"The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those
who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw





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