From: Jonathan Berry (jberry_at_islandnet.com)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 15:55:58 EDT
>>In my experience with unhappy customers, the 128 and 256 MB
>>CF units do not work well in very many cameras and readers...
>>the person must have the very latest equipment in order to
>>be happy and sanguine.
>
>I certainly don't doubt your hands-on experience, but the spec for
>my Kodak DC215 Millenium blah blah edition claims any
That's the digicam I have.
A Kodak 32 MB CF card has worked fine for about a year.
More recently I upgraded to 128 MB SimpleTech. It works fine.
I just duplicated the directory names that were already on the
32 MB card. Even with a bunch of other stuff (TP 600E notebook
backups and files needed on a 701C) on the 128 MB, it worked
fine. It was quite a jolt to turn on the camera and see "422"
(pictures remaining) come on the little LCD screen.
One nice thing about the DC215 is that it remembers the last
pic number, so the numbers always go in chronological order,
even if you're jockeying CF cards. By comparison, the Sony 730
videocam restarts at zero each time you clear the photos off
the memory stick. I've written some good old DOS batch files
to help with that.
I use a CF to PCMCIA adaptor. Works fine on a TP, useless on a
desktop.
>regular-thickness CF card will work, in fact they say if the
>capacity is >999 images, the counter will stay at 999 until it goes
>down.
>
>
>Twenty five exposures was too limiting but I expect 100 will be
>enough,
112 pics (32 MB) was enough until we started going to Home and
Garden tours. I also needed to do on-camera deletion when I
was in Turkey away from my laptop for a week.
-- cheers Jonathan Berry http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/ to know more than you want
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