Canon 5D

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:55:52 +1000, "Camera" <stevephotos RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:

> Canon 5D can only recognise 8G from a 16G card! Anything I can do to make
> it recongise 16G?

Have you formatted the card in the camera?
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Yes, had tried to use the camera to format it or to us PC to format and got
the same result. It is strange that it only recognise 8G but if I used up
another 8G it will still show 8G unused.

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>> Canon 5D can only recognise 8G from a 16G card! Anything I can do to
>> make it recongise 16G?
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> Have you formatted the card in the camera?
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"Camera" <stevephotos RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Canon 5D can only recognise 8G from a 16G card! Anything I can do to make
> it recongise 16G?

I believe that the 5D has an 8G limit on CF cards, so nothing will make it
see that other 8G on the card.
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"Camera" <stevephotos RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Canon 5D can only recognise 8G from a 16G card! Anything I can do to make
> it recongise 16G?

Since Canon doesn't see a need to update this model maybe a firmware udpate
will be coming?
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"Jufi" <bowser.TakeThisOut@your.service> wrote in message
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> "Camera" <stevephotos.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Canon 5D can only recognise 8G from a 16G card! Anything I can do to
>> make it recongise 16G?
>
> I believe that the 5D has an 8G limit on CF cards, so nothing will make it
> see that other 8G on the card.

That sucks, a Canon thing I guess then, sounds crazy enough to be a Canon
thing.......................................
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"just bob" <kilbyfan.TakeThisOut@aol.com> wrote:
> "Camera" <stevephotos.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Canon 5D can only recognise 8G from a 16G card! Anything I can do to
>> make it recongise 16G?
>
> Since Canon doesn't see a need to update this model maybe a firmware
> udpate will be coming?

I suppose it's possible.

If you (or the original poster) go to

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1032

and search for "5D 16GB" (without the quotes), you'll find that some people
have succeeded in using 16GB cards with 16GB seen and used by the 5D by
formatting on either a PC or another camera. But some people have had
problems doing that.

So my recommendation would be to just put up with the 8GB limit.

When the 5D came out, a 4GB card cost around US$500 (more like US$900 in
Japan), and the geniuses at Canon probably (a) forgot that Moore's law would
go through at least two generations before the 5DII came out, and (b) didn't
think that anyone would be putting a US$2000 card in a US$2500 camera. (Were
there even 16GB cards available then? The 5D is getting painfully long in
tooth.)

FWIW, my 5D locked up once shortly after I got it, refusing to write to the
(4GB) card. I was using a new card that I had not formatted in the camera.
After reformatting the card in the camera, I've not seen that problem again
in over two years of use.

The general advice with pretty much all dcams is that one should only use a
card that has been formatted in the camera.

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:49:12 +1100, "Pete D" <no.DeleteThis@email.com> wrote:
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: "Jufi" <bowser.DeleteThis@your.service> wrote in message
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: > "Camera" <stevephotos.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
: > news:47c37fc3$0$20842$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
: >> Canon 5D can only recognise 8G from a 16G card! Anything I can do to
: >> make it recongise 16G?
: >
: > I believe that the 5D has an 8G limit on CF cards, so nothing will make
: > it see that other 8G on the card.
:
: That sucks, a Canon thing I guess then, sounds crazy enough to be a Canon
: thing.......................................

Nonsense. The 5D has been out for several years; a card that large is a recent
development. I doubt that the 40D has that restriction.

Bob
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> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:49:12 +1100, "Pete D" <no RemoveThis @email.com> wrote:
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> : "Jufi" <bowser RemoveThis @your.service> wrote in message
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> : > "Camera" <stevephotos RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
> : > news:47c37fc3$0$20842$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> : >> Canon 5D can only recognise 8G from a 16G card! Anything I can do to
> : >> make it recongise 16G?
> : >
> : > I believe that the 5D has an 8G limit on CF cards, so nothing will
> make
> : > it see that other 8G on the card.
> :
> : That sucks, a Canon thing I guess then, sounds crazy enough to be a
> Canon
> : thing.......................................
>
> Nonsense. The 5D has been out for several years; a card that large is a
> recent
> development. I doubt that the 40D has that restriction.
>
> Bob

Well Bob my 3 year old Pentax Ds will use the big SDHC cards, when the Ds
came out it could not even read anything above 1Gb let alone SDHC. But it is
well known that this is an area that Canon does poorly, you will just have
to get over it and the 16Gb cards are not that special to not be supported,
the standard should support muc, much larger cards.
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