D70, D70s CF card interchangeabilty

I've just bought a Nikon D70s, and I noticed that files previously

recorded to the card from my D70 do not show up when in the D70s. I

did not (re)format the old card for the D70s but it worked in the

new D70s anyway. Do I really need to reformat them for the new

camera? If I do, will they still work in the old camera?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

DG

I'm a bit surprised, but not shocked, that it wouldn't display the D70 images. You should be able to use the empty space available on either camera. That said, this whole scenario sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Scenario: you delete all the shots you took with one camera, and it tells you there are no images on the card. You then do a quick format before shooting again. Then you remember you had images on there from the other camera. Oops..

Get the old images off the card, do a format in camera (should probably be done anytime you want to clear old shots), and start fresh. If you're shooting two cameras, I'd imagine they'd both have CF cards in them and the need to swap CF cards would be minimal.

Brian Y,

 

Thanks for your answer. What you said makes sense. I do have two cards already, so I may just dedicate a card to each camera. I was able to view the other images, however, that were previously shot with the D70. In the menu, under "folder", there are two folders. One was D70 and the other was D70s. I just chose the D70 folder and voila, there they were. I'll make sure they're saved to CD before I reformat the card in the new camera.

 

DG

Camera's are very specific in where they "look" for files. A digital camera has a very limited file handling ability. A camera just dosn't expect to have to look for another camera's images.

David - you don't need to reformat D70 cards for a D70s, or visa versa. I don't even reformat cards going from Nikon to Canon.

 

The best way to "fix" your problem is to use the menu option:

 

playback->playback fldr

 

It will be set to "current" by default. If you change it to "all", the D70 (or D70s) will display files in any folder, not just the ones that end with "ND70" (or "ND70S"). So the D70 can view, delete, etc. D70s files, and the D70s can view or delete D70 files (they will both also be able to view and delete D100, D1X, D2X, D200, etc. files, or even files from other brands of camera).

 

If you don't want to change the "playback fldr", there are two useful options on another menu:

 

setup->folders

 

First, you can use "select folder" to change the name of the folder that the camera looks in to view pictures, and stores new pictures in. So you can change the D70's folder to "ND70S" or the D70s's folder to "ND70" and you'll have both cameras storing files in the same directory, and able to view each other's files.

 

The other option on that menu is the ability to "rename" a folder, so you can take a CF card that was created on the D70, rename the "D70" folder to "D70s" so you can work with those files on the D70s, view them, delete files, etc.

 

Have fun.

 

Joe

Thanks for the answers. Joe, you explained it really well.I hope others who might have the same questions I did will read your informative response.

 

DG