sd450 max capacity

http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Prod...o.aspx?ID=2201

Anyone know if the canon sd450 can take the sandisk ultra ii 4 gb sd
card?

On Jan 27, 6:33 pm, " wrote:
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Prod...o.aspx?ID=2201

Anyone know if the canon sd450 can take the sandisk ultra ii 4 gb sd
card?

Hi Calvin,

First, Canon's tech support is very helpful with these kinds of
questions - just send them an email to get an answer in 24hrs.

Second, I've got a Canon S80 and a new SD700IS and asked the same
question of Canon. I was told both cameras will only handle up to 2GB
cards. I would assume then since the SD700is is brand new that is
will probably be the same story for the sd450 since it is a few months
older.

Bates......

Bates wrote:

On Jan 27, 6:33 pm, " wrote:
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Prod...o.aspx?ID=2201

Anyone know if the canon sd450 can take the sandisk ultra ii 4 gb sd
card?

Hi Calvin,

First, Canon's tech support is very helpful with these kinds of
questions - just send them an email to get an answer in 24hrs.

Second, I've got a Canon S80 and a new SD700IS and asked the same
question of Canon. I was told both cameras will only handle up to 2GB
cards.

After reading your message, I just popped the 4GB SD from my PocketPC
into my S80. The "remaining shots" indicator showed something in the
high hundreds (at max resolution and minimum compression, with about
1.5G of other junk already on the card). I was able to take a picture
and view it. My impression is that Canon doesn't know what they're
talking about.

On Jan 28, 2:01 am, timeOday wrote:
Bates wrote:

On Jan 27, 6:33 pm, " wrote:
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Prod...o.aspx?ID=2201

Anyone know if the canon sd450 can take the sandisk ultra ii 4 gb sd
card?

Hi Calvin,

First, Canon's tech support is very helpful with these kinds of
questions - just send them an email to get an answer in 24hrs.

Second, I've got a Canon S80 and a new SD700IS and asked the same
question of Canon. I was told both cameras will only handle up to 2GB
cards.After reading your message, I just popped the 4GB SD from my PocketPC
into my S80. The "remaining shots" indicator showed something in the
high hundreds (at max resolution and minimum compression, with about
1.5G of other junk already on the card). I was able to take a picture
and view it. My impression is that Canon doesn't know what they're
talking about.

It may well be that the camera will work with a 4Gb card but it
will read it as a 2Gb.


Eric

On Jan 28, 2:01 am, timeOday wrote:
Bates wrote:

On Jan 27, 6:33 pm, " wrote:
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Prod...o.aspx?ID=2201

Anyone know if the canon sd450 can take the sandisk ultra ii 4 gb sd
card?

Hi Calvin,

First, Canon's tech support is very helpful with these kinds of
questions - just send them an email to get an answer in 24hrs.

Second, I've got a Canon S80 and a new SD700IS and asked the same
question of Canon. I was told both cameras will only handle up to 2GB
cards.After reading your message, I just popped the 4GB SD from my PocketPC
into my S80. The "remaining shots" indicator showed something in the
high hundreds (at max resolution and minimum compression, with about
1.5G of other junk already on the card). I was able to take a picture
and view it. My impression is that Canon doesn't know what they're
talking about.

Good to know. I didn't have a 4GB card to try. I was thinking of
buying one but didn't want to get something incompatible. Maybe I'll
find someone with a 4GB card and try it out.

Thanks for letting us know.

Bates.....

"timeOday"
Second, I've got a Canon S80 and a new SD700IS and asked the same
question of Canon. I was told both cameras will only handle up to 2GB
cards.

After reading your message, I just popped the 4GB SD from my PocketPC into
my S80. The "remaining shots" indicator showed something in the high
hundreds (at max resolution and minimum compression, with about 1.5G of
other junk already on the card). I was able to take a picture and view
it. My impression is that Canon doesn't know what they're talking about.

Here can be one trap. It's just an idea, so don't critique me so much!
Are you sure that your SD is formatted with FAT32 like all SDHC cards or
maybe it's formatted with FAT16? I saw some reviews when people reformatted
their 4GB SD in the camera and the camera refused accepting these SD after
that. I don't recommend you to reformat this SD anyway just to test that
out.

Just try, if you have a card reader able to read this card, plug it into
your computer and try to get the file system that it's currently using. If
you format with FAT32 it's more likely that this card will become real SDHC
and will not be accepted with your older devices.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310561

And one more thing. I have one 4GB and one 8 GB, both are recognized with my
older Card Reader from Patriot, it's a very nice reader. I can read these
cards, didn't try although to read the fully written card. But to write to
these card is a problem because these cards are SDHC and are having FAT32
which is not supported by the reader.

So make a couple non-destructive tests to figure out what's really going on
with your card. Try to connect your camera to your PC and use it as a card
reader, trying to write many small files to your SD. But same all info from
this card first before you start all tests to preserve it.

Would be interesting to get the results of these tests.

Just D.