[LRFlex] Re: A question for the 20D users.

David Young asked:

>>I am using a couple of 1 gig cards (Lexar Professional HS, if it matters) but 
>>get a curious anomoly.

When I put a freshly formatted card in the 20D (Raw only mode) it reports that 
I have 98 photos available.  (49 on the 512mb card).

But, every now and again, the camera reports (and delivers!) 109 photos!

It seems to make no difference whether I format in the camera, or format on my 
computer/card reader and then re-format in the camera. (Formatting in the 
compter alone, does not create the DCIM folder that the in-camera formatting 
creates, and which the 20D wants.)

Has anybody else noticed this anomoly? And is 98 photos per gb normal?

Just curious....<<<<<<<<

Hi David,
Interesting note as I never bothered to see how many shots there are since the 
first card I received with the camera. So recently I figured I should make sure 
I always have a bunch of space so popped for a couple of  2 Gig cards, you just 
keep on blasting away and they never seem to come to the end. ;-) Beats the 
hell out of changing film every short bit. ;-)

So I figured there'd always be lots of space, until I went to Cabo san Lucas in 
Mexico a couple of weeks ago and near filled both clicking away. :-)  Actually 
finished off the week on a 1 Gig card. :-) So I figure maybe I need one of 
those Epson downloading things with music and big viewing screen! ;-) Or buy a 
couple more 2 or 4 Gigger's! ;-)

I mean I'd hate to run out of rolls of gig ! ;-)

ted

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