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| Thread ID: 123253 | 2012-02-13 22:25:00 | Camera SD cards | Brucem (8688) | Press F1 |
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| 1258983 | 2012-02-13 22:25:00 | My wife has a Canon PowerShot A540 camera 5 or so years old. when she bought it it had very small card 16 MB? She bought a 512MB card at the same time as the camera. Because of space limitations a 1GB card was used from 2007. This worked OK until about 10 days ago, when after she deleted some pictures the card no longer works. When it is on the camera setting the screen has an error message at the top "Memory card error", and when it is on veiw setting, "Memory card error" shows in the middle of the screen, and "Card locked!" at the bottom. The card lock is not in the on position. The old 512MB card still works, apparently OK. In my USB card reader the 1GB card does not get detected, but the 512MB card is OK. I decided that the 1GB card had died and and bought a new 8GB card, which behaves exactly as the IGB card. I may have made the error by putting it into the camera before looking at it in the card reader. Unfortunately we can't find the camera manual, and it is not available for download from Canon NZ. Is the camera shot, if not what can be done? |
Brucem (8688) | ||
| 1258984 | 2012-02-13 22:57:00 | The 8GB card would be an SDHC card which is not compatible with cameras that only support SD cards (which are <4GB). | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1258985 | 2012-02-13 23:01:00 | SD cards have gone through a few evolutions, the 8GB is probably too large for the camera to recognise and may be simply incompatible. Bear in mind 5 years ago an 8GB SD card would have been enormous and probably didn't exist. I'd suggest sticking to a 2GB or smaller and taking the camera in with you to see if the salespeople will let you try it out before buy. This site www.memory-up.com says 2GB max for that camera. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1258986 | 2012-02-13 23:13:00 | Thanks pcuser42 & dugimodo, I feared that there may be a limit on card capacity, that was why I tried to find the manual. However, that doesn't explain the problem with the 1GB card that has apperently failed recently. | Brucem (8688) | ||
| 1258987 | 2012-02-13 23:34:00 | I suggest you copy them onto your computer and preferably back them up on another device as well. When you delete images off your memory card, fragmentation can occur. Some people advise against doing this but instead to do a FORMAT of the memory card IN the camera. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1258988 | 2012-02-14 01:22:00 | FORMAT of the memory card IN the camera. IN the camera is the key here,Cards formatted in a PC are likely to not be "seen" by the camera. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 1258989 | 2012-02-14 02:51:00 | The NZ canon site seems to have a user guide, but won't display when searched from their site. But can use Google doing a site search for pdf user guide like this. (www.google.co.nz) Then click on quick view link to open. For me it opens in google Docs. Similar search results here. (www.google.co.nz) | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
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