On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:43:31PM -0800, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > As an aside, I read somewhere (DPreview?) that someone used a 4GB SD card > that wasn't listed as being SDHC in one of their Pentax DSLR's that had the > appropriate firmware upgrade, and found the card to function perfectly. It > formatted to slightly less than 4GB, which is to be expected, and the > camera was able to fill the card, format and reformat it with no problems. > Maybe that's an indicator that either the card was SDHC compliant but not > marked as such, or that Pentax doesn't have to use SDHC cards, but that any > 4GB card can be used.
Unlikely. I'd suspect that the 4GB card complied with enough of the SDHC spec to allow the camera to use it. But this doesn't mean the card was fully SDHC compliant - just that the differences didn't matter to that camera. There could well be some SDHC-compliant devices (such as a card reader, perhaps, or a different body) where the difference *was* important. I'm sure, too, that there are some other 4GB cards out there that don't work in the camera (or which might work in one DSLR, but not in another). I think buying anything larger than 2GB that isn't documented as being fully SDHC compliant is a gamble, and not one that I am prepared to take. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
