Nikon D50
 

Hi all, Can the Nikon D50 take a 2gb and up SD card? I use a 1gb card at the moment, but it does not say in the instruction book, cheers, Bert

Hi Fishingdobbie,
No idea, but try nikon-euro.com, the official Nikon site, they have a huge Q&A forum.If it's not there then they have the facilities for you to ask the question and get a reply.
regards Subzero.

Hi again Fishingdobbie,
Have a look at nikonians.com
Look in their D50 forum there is a recent post no15456 relating to large capacity cards with fast write times causing the camera to slow down?? I did not read it all but it might be useful.
Subzero.

Thanks Subzero will do,Bert

Thanks again, the d50 can take up to 2gb, Bert

I havn't got the Nikon I have a Canon but I have found its better to stick to 1gb cards, if you have a failure its unlikely for more than one card to fail at the same time. Another consideration is the time to upload to the computer, I have only filled a 1gb card once and it took nearly half an hour to upload imagine how long with a 2gb.

That's why I buy high speed cards. I don't really care about the in camera speed - the fungi I photograph don't often run away - but I like to transfer from card to PC using a card reader. I recently bought a 100x 2GB card and was surprised at the wide variation in price. As I understand it, there are only a few manufacturers of memory and flash controllers, so is there really much difference in quality?

Incidentally, isn't there software to recover images from a corrupted card? I presume corruption is usually due to a write error on the FAT, given that corruption within an image would not lead to a read failure. Or do the controllers fail?

Leif.

I take your point saphire,thanks Bert

The Lexar cards usually come with the Lexar Image Recovery software (they stick it on the card).
Never, in 6 years have I had a card fail me... tempting fate there :eek:

Leif I use a high speed card and card reader I have the Sandisk III which is quite fast I also have a 512kb card which I put in camera just while I upload to the PC via the reader but I still find this slow. When I am away I carry a 40gb portable storage drive which you can now get for around £99 which is very useful, they are now very appealing. Two 1gb cards equals 1, 40gb storage device and they hold a heck of a lot of images.

Saphire - I use CF rather than SD cards but I think the speed ratings are on the same basis. I have a 1gb Trancend card which is rated at 80x which is not as fast as your Extreme III and yet that transfers a full card in under 2.5 minutes using a card reader. A thought - are both your card reader & PC USB ports USB 2?

Hi Christine. It never occurred to me to buy a portable storage device! Doh. Leif

Gidders is there anyway to check whether the reader is usb 2 . It is plugeed into a usb 2 port but it doesn't say on the reader itself.