Formatting SD Memory Cards

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 16 11:13:48 UTC 2012


On 16 November 2012 10:56, Graham Todd <grahamtodd2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:46:39 -0500
> Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Ahh, here we go:
>> http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/connect/dsc/dmc_fz10.html
>> It appears that this camera doesn't like 4GB cards.
>
> That's the answer: thanks Dave.
>
> Curious that: it should be in the manual but I've looked through it
> time and again and can't find it.  And yes, I can confirm it works with
> a 2 gig card!

Possibly when the manual was written SDHC did not exist.  If the
manual only mentions SD and not SDHC then it will probably not read
SDHC.  It is not the size of the card that is the problem, it is the
fact that it is SDHC which requires different hardware to drive it.

Colin




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