Using 4GB SD Card in RD1S

[jl_1303]

Have anyone ever tried this? Please help advise.
The RD1S manual says that only 2GB SDs are supported but I just want to find out if anyone out there tried the 4 GB.
Also, what speed of SD cards is good to use in the RD1S? Does 133X cards has any advantages over normal speed SD Cards? Thanks.
Jeremy

 

[RichC]

See http://www.richcutler.co.uk/r-d1/r-d1_08.htm

You're limited to 2 GB cards only - the camera firmware can omly read cards formatted as FAT16, which has a max. space limit of 2 GB. Cards over 2 GB have to be formatted as FAT32 - with a bit of fiddling, you can reformat a FAT32 card as FAT16 on your PC, but then you end up with effectively a 2 GB card!

Fast cards make no appreciable difference when taking photos as the R-D1.* Where you will see a difference is when transferring files from the card to your PC via the card reader.

[*That said, I've never used any of the early generation really slow cards. If anyone has, is there an appreciable difference in writing raw files to the card?]

 

[peter_n]

The ATP Electronics Pro Max 4GB SDHC is currently benchmarked as the fastest SDHC card. Avoid SanDisk. Sony have released an 8GB card and the SDHC spec. goes up to 32GB. Expect larger capacities. 🙂

 

[RML]

The ATP Electronics Pro Max 4GB SDHC is currently benchmarked as the fastest SDHC card. Avoid SanDisk. Sony have released an 8GB card and the SDHC spec. goes up to 32GB. Expect larger capacities. 🙂

Yet none of these can beused in the R-D1, sadly. 🙂

Why avoid Sandisk? I've been using almost nothing but Sandisk. Never had any trouble.

Lexmark is a good brand too.

 

[peter_n]

It has to do with benchmarks Remy. The Sandisk cards don't bench well. One benchmark review said that many people seem to buy on the basis of which card has the best packaging and the coolest logo, I think that was a dig at Lexar actually. But another did say that the Sandisk cards seem to be everywhere in the stores and the reviewer couldn't understand why.

People don't do their homework and don't really think about the read/write performance of the inexpensive add-ons. But with cameras it can affect performance. Last time I bought a digi P&S for one of my kids Transcend benched best in the 2GB cards. Now its ATP. Both I think are relatively unknown Taiwanese companies but their products are cheap because I guess they don't market too much. The 4GB ATP SDHC card is $78 here. Unbelievable really.