Fuji S7000 and 1gig XD card?

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

Robert McKee - 16 Jun 2005 13:36 GMT

Hello,
I have a Fuji S7000 here, and am quite happy with it. However, I would like
to upgrade to a larger mem card. IF anyone is successfully using a 1gig XD
card with this camera, I would like to know...

Thanks,
Robert

Signature

Mandriva 2005 x86-64
Athlon 3700+
2gig Ram

Reply to this Message

critcher - 17 Jun 2005 17:02 GMT

> Hello,
> I have a Fuji S7000 here, and am quite happy with it. However, I would
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Thanks,
> Robert

critcher said
ive sent for a 1gig card for my fuji e550, hopefully ti will enable some
usefull time for videos as well as photos. I'll let you know how it works
out, should get it in about four days.

Reply to this Message

Robert McKee - 18 Jun 2005 01:05 GMT

> critcher said
> ive sent for a 1gig card for my fuji e550, hopefully ti will enable some
> usefull time for videos as well as photos. I'll let you know how it works
> out, should get it in about four days.

Thanks,
I'll be waiting!!!!!!!!

Robert

Signature

Mandriva 2005 x86-4
Kernel 2.6.11-6
Athlon 3700+
2gig Ram

Reply to this Message

Pilbs - 18 Jun 2005 12:46 GMT

> Hello,
> I have a Fuji S7000 here, and am quite happy with it. However, I would
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Thanks,
> Robert

On the Fuji website it only shows XD cards upto 512
http://www.fujifilm.co.uk/digital/cameras/s7000/index.php?page=tech_specs
and the main Fuji site seems to confirm this
http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/digitalS7000Specs.jsp?dbid=616757&ite
m=I616757&subitem=SIDataSpecSheets616757&urltype=dataspec&NavBarId=SIDataSpecShe
ets616757
or http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2301294B if it wraps

Reply to this Message

Mark Fineman - 19 Jun 2005 03:02 GMT

> Hello,
> I have a Fuji S7000 here, and am quite happy with it. However, I would like
> to upgrade to a larger mem card. IF anyone is successfully using a 1gig XD
> card with this camera, I would like to know...

The work with Fujifilm S5100.

The Fujifilm site's Search finds entries for various things that need
free firmware updates, but the links, which are dated today, June 18,
are broken in some way.

Search for
xd compatibility 1GB

One entry is for:

> Line-up and Compatibility
> ... SmartMedia xD-Picture Card xD- Picture Card Type M Micro Drive DPC -CF MG-2
> MG-4 -MG-4S ... 8 MB 16 MB 32 MB 64 MB 128 MB 5V 3.3V 16MB I 512MB 1GB 340MB I 1GB
> 2GB 4GB DS-7 Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No ...
> http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/bin/xDCompatibilityChart.pdf - 393.3KB

Dated 20 Apr 05

The document says, if I am reading it correctly, that 1GB works
in the FinePix S7000, but

> *9: The xD-Picture Cards Type M is not recommeneded for movie recording.

I assign Type M is what I have and which works in the FinePix S5100.
I did see that the 1GB is definitely slower than 512MB and 256MB when
I read on my computer, but the reader that I have isn't very fast:
goes 2.5-3MB/second with the 1GB, 3.3-3.9MB/second with the 512MB
ones.

Does anyone know a fast USB 2.0 reader for xD-picture cards? A combo
drive would be better. Cost under $100, I would hope. My old
reader was even slower, only about 1.2MB/second. A 1GB card took 15
minutes to read.

Reply to this Message

Robert McKee - 19 Jun 2005 16:45 GMT

>> Hello,
>> I have a Fuji S7000 here, and am quite happy with it. However, I would
[quoted text clipped - 39 lines]
> 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy
> via Encryption =----

Thanks,
From my googling, I found the same....that the 512 is the largest card to be
'supported'. However, I was guessing that as long as I was under the 2gig
limit for the fat16 fs, I would be OK.

Thanks to all...

Robert

Signature

Mandriva 2005 x86-4
Kernel 2.6.11-6
Athlon 3700+
2gig Ram

Reply to this Message