What is the largest compactflash card I can use with my Canon Powershot S45?

[Brian Evans]

In the Powershot S45 manual, it displays various size memory cards
stats, and how many images they can hold, etc., but the max
compactflash size shown is 256mb. I don't think there would be any
problems with larger cards such as 512mb and 1gb, but I don't want to
buy one if anyone has had any problems with these larger sizes. Any
experience with cf cards larger than 256mb? Thanks!

[photon]

All CF card sizes should work, as long as they are not larger than 2 GBytes.
Larger than that (some have been announced but I don't know about actual
availability), FAT32 support is required to use the extra space. FAT32 is
only supported by the latest DSLR cameras AFAIK.

[Chris Gunn]

On 10 Jul 2003 11:45:17 -0700, [email]brian@ptool.com[/email] (Brian Evans) wrote:

>In the Powershot S45 manual, it displays various size memory cards
>stats, and how many images they can hold, etc., but the max
>compactflash size shown is 256mb. I don't think there would be any
>problems with larger cards such as 512mb and 1gb, but I don't want to
>buy one if anyone has had any problems with these larger sizes. Any
>experience with cf cards larger than 256mb? Thanks!

Should be fine to 2gb

Gunn

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[Jim Polaski]

In article <68afb8e1.0307101045.6b80be7@posting.google.com> ,
[email]brian@ptool.com[/email] (Brian Evans) wrote:

> In the Powershot S45 manual, it displays various size memory cards
> stats, and how many images they can hold, etc., but the max
> compactflash size shown is 256mb. I don't think there would be any
> problems with larger cards such as 512mb and 1gb, but I don't want to
> buy one if anyone has had any problems with these larger sizes. Any
> experience with cf cards larger than 256mb? Thanks!

Because a smaller card works is not a guarantee that a larger one will.
For example, the Oly 2500L was supposed to only see up to a 256.

Fuji S2's are picky. They love microdrives, but not all CF cards. I know
SimpleTech's won't work in the S2. Fuji advises you test one before
buying.

This said, I'm sure a call to Canon would get you an answer.

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