Re: Memory cards...?

On 31 Jan 2008 06:54:59 GMT, ray wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:26:32 +0000, Allodoxaphobia wrote:
On 31 Jan 2008 01:55:45 GMT, ray wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:44:14 -0500, elliot wrote:

My daughter gave me her 8 year old digital camera a Canon powershot
S20 with a memory card..FC16M..and I want to buy another memory
card...that would allow me to take more pictures.

OK - so what's stopping you? BTW - did you mean CF instead of FC? CF is
Compact Flash - probably an 8mb card - you can now get a 1gb CF card
for around $10-15.

But, I wouldn't go any higher than 1GB on a camera _that_ old. I have
several cameras a l m o s t that old and one or two of'em go kah-kah
with even a 2GB card.

I'm somewhat surprised that 1gb works and 2gb doesn't. They are both
generally formatted fat16.

I'm not -- surprised, that is.

I am an old, Old, OLDE Mainframe _Assembler_ Programmer. The code in
the on-board logic probably cut corners: using 16-bit counters for
something where 32-bit counters are (now) more appropriate; ignoring
OVERFLOW because (when the code was written) it "can't happen"; etc., usw.

Remember Y2K? Same idiotic programming technique: using a 2-byte field
for the year .... because the code couldn't possibly still be in use
when the year 2000 came around.

So, back when a 64MB CF card was the biggest and the cameras were
shipping with 8MB cards, guess what played a part in the "design process"?


Jonesy
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