Got the camera used, and it had everything except the flash memory card. I went to Amazon and searched by the camera name, and they had cards… Oops! Wrong! They tricked me! I bought a nice 32Gb SDHC card…an’ it don’ work! Pfui! Can someone here (SDMB, font of all knowledge!) point me in the right direction? Million gracias!
The 30D requires a CompactFlash card, completely different format. Where did you find someone recommending SD cards?
I believe maximum supported size is 128G. Not sure what speeds are most useful.
Amazon, durn 'em. I searched by the camera name, and that was one of the items they displayed. I’ll look again and make sure to specify CompactFlash. Thank’ee!
Yeah, I was going to say, those took Compact Flash cards. I don’t know what memory limits they have. That’s a camera from like, I don’t know 2005? I could look it up, but I assume there are limits to how big of a card you can use is. 128G seems high to me. I only use 64GB cards with today’s generation of cameras. But it could be right.
Going back to Amazon and searching with the new term, I found a nice 64Gb puppy for a comfortable price. Hope it works! Thanks for advice!
You know they make CF to SD card adapters, right? That’s what I use in my Eos 7D.
Nope, I didn’t know that. That would have been a good work-around, but too late now, I sent off for a CF card. Thank you anyway! (Is there anything the SDMB collective doesn’t know?)
In fact, these days I only buy Micro SD cards. For my EOS 7D, I put the micro SD in an SD adapter, and put that in a CF card adapter. There may be some speed reduction as a consequence, but I don’t know that it happens at all. And the advantage is that the same cards can be used in all my devices. I even have Micro SD to USB stick adapters.
And boy are those Micro SD cards micro. Don’t handle those things with Parkinson’s!
For sure they are tiny.
When digital cameras were new, most used CF cards. I remember buying 128 Meg CF cards from Fry’s and thinking $100 was a bargain. Now a 128 Gig micro SD card is less than $20.
Also, I’ve found that when you search on Amazon, you get all sorts of results that “sort of” match what you are looking for; not simply the specific results you want. Be very cautious when searching for less common items on Amazon.
Or you get thousands of results that match in no way whatsoever.
I sure learned that’n the hard way! But a Google search didn’t do any better. Phoomph!