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Heard someone saying if you put a memory card from a Casio into a nikon it will reformat it.
I say its a crock, does anyone know better?
Not Casio/Nikon, but I swapped a card from an ancient Kyocera camera to a Panasonic TZ3, it needed formatting before I could use it for anything in the Panasonic.
You should format it in the camera you want to use
Ultimately it's only going to be the odd few cameras that don't deal with the normal FAT16 or FAT32 filesystems - so "formatting it for a camera" is effectively pointless - if it reads/writes to it and doesn't *ask* for it to be formatted it'll be fine. I've changed SD cards between dozens of cameras and computers and never yet had to format them for a camera, even an old 800K pixel camera of yesteryear. I've never met a camera that automatically reformatted the card - not saying it WONT happen for sure, but I highly doubt it - formatting is a fairly low-level critical operation.
I took CF cards from my EOS10d to my EOS20d without problems, except I've just found out that the counter on the 20d isn't accurate as it's probably taken the data from the 10d and screwed it all up... 😥
Some cameras will do it but I swap cards between my lumix, my ixus and my gopro pretty constantly and it's never a problem.
Why not just format it in the camera anyway, not exactly a long process at less than a minute, perhaps i'm missing something, but what harm can it do?
Best way to make sure its clean and you get the full amount of memory space, once I have backed up my pics I always use it for deleting too
Why not just format it in the camera anyway, not exactly a long process at less than a minute, perhaps i'm missing something, but what harm can it do?
Because you may wish to say...use the card in another camera while keeping the pictures - if you swap cameras in the field, or someone with a better camera needs extra space and you have a spare card with some photos you want on it.
Loads of reasons. Sure everyone should take out enough space to use etc, but in the heat of the moment it's easy to blast through your whole card and need a cheeky spare.
girlfriends camera
she's taken a load of pics on a casio, but then took the camera back and exchanged it for a nikon
now she doesn't want to put the card in the nikon in case it loses the pics
I don't think it will, but if I say its fine and then she loses them....
Sorry my picture taking routine is obviously very different to others then, so not really understanding the problem
I usually take the shots, download to pc or laptop, back up to external hard drive then clear the card mostly by formatting in camera
Even so can't imagine a camera would auto format without some sort of user confirmation being required
I have an 8GB card that I swap between my Sanyo camcorder, my Nikon D80 and my wife's Lumix. All photos and videos are fine, all organised in their own folders.
The only thing to be careful of is if you use a camera manufacturers own software to copy stuff off then it may not see the other files. But I just copy the files in Windows as I expect most folk do.