Bruce: Think of the smartmedia as an electronic floppy disk. The actual electronic controller for the smartmedia format in the camera is limited to only work with 2MB cards. Think of it like an old 720k floppy (3.5 inch) reader. While you can stick a 1.4 MB floppy into it you will not be able to read it. That keeps the cost down, in that particular camera model. One very important caution, if you have an external smartmedia reader attached to your PC. While this reader can write, read, format and erase the files after you have transferred them into the pc, only use it for reading. There could be a high probability of damaging the smartmedia if you write, format or erase it from an external reader. What may happen is that while you will be able to use it in the pc reader/writer, the camera may report it as a damaged card or a card with an error in the allocation area, this will make the card un usable in the camera. I know from personal and other's experiences. This is a random problem with the smartmedia format.
Angel Arecibo, Puerto Rico Bruce Ferguson wrote: >Hi All > >My son was given a basic digital camera (Digital Dream Digital 2000), it's >identical in appearance as to the Jenoptic JD11 and Samsung Digimax 800K. >Though the Digimax has a higher resolution (1024 X 768), the specs and >operations are identical to each other. > >The Digital 2000 uses a removable SmartMedia card, and came with a 2Mb card >(as do the others). Since the manual was missing, I called Digital Dream >and asked what size cards can it take. They informed me that it only takes >2Mb cards. > >Not delving any further with their answer until recently, when I started >pondering why does the camera only recognise 2Mb cards and not larger ones. >After all, a digital camera basically exposes and processes the image, >turning it into a file and stores it on a card. So the bigger the card the >more images it is able to store. But since the Digital 2000 can only >recognise 2Mb cards, I have come to the conclusion, that there must be >something preventing the camera from recognising or storing images to larger >cards. > >Does anyone know why the camera is limited to 2MB cards, and why it should >not be able to save to bigger ones? > >Regards >Bruce Ferguson >Canterbury >Kent > >"Freedom is the freedom to say, 2+2=4. If that is granted all else >follows." >(Winston Smith, April 1984) >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
