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Originally Posted by yelvertoft
I also favour reformatting the card in the camera rather than on the PC. I consider it is more reliable to format the card using the device that has to write to it, less risk of subtle differences in the formatting causing errors and corruption.
Duncan.
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...and with modern cameras it only takes a few seconds so there's no reason not to, as far as I can see.
My Sony S85 from a few years ago needs about half a minute to format a 128Mb card but with the Canon 20D it takes longer to acces the 'format' option than to do the actual formatting.