4GB SD cards - a datapoint

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

The issue with large capacity non-SDHC cards isn't that NONE of them  
work. The issue is that MANY of them do not work RELIABLY. Would you  
risk your photographs?

In a quote from the editorial photography organization I belong to,  
"... considering all the years and all the equipment I've used,  
bought and sold, the only things that are really valuable are my  
photographs. ..."

Several possibles: the card *could* be SDHC (check with Transcend);  
if you have the most recent firmware update for the DS2 installed,  
and if the card is formatted for FAT32, it could work well.

Smart money is to wait for SDHC cards and readers ...

Godfrey

On Nov 8, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Mat Maessen wrote:

> This past weekend, a friend of mine showed me his PDA, which had a 4GB
> Transcend 150x SD card in it. The card was marked identically to my
> 2GB cards, with nothing identifying it as an SDHC card.
>
> I popped the card out of his PDA, popped it into my DS2 (firmware
> 1.01), and powered up the camera. The camera powered up, recognized
> that there was a card in the slot, and told me that I could shoot 391
> raw files on the card (It gives me 188 raw files on a 2GB card). I did
> not try to write anything to the card, since I didn't want to risk
> corrupting it.
>
> Just a bit of a data point. It's almost worth buying a 4GB card for
> myself to test out. Anyone else have one kicking around that they
> could try?