D70s memory card restriction?

Do anyone know that if the D70s can take more than a 2gb CF card? My local shop rang Nikon the other day and

confirmed with me that it doesn't is this the case??

Danny, you asked this same exact question in another thread, and Bjorn Rorslett already answered your question there:

http://www.photo.net/nikon-camera-forum/00PzQF

 

Even my D100, which was introduced back in 2002, two years prior to the D70 and three years prior to the D70s, can use 4G CF cards to the full extend.

I think there is something wrong with your camera soft ware. Get it checked up. I have 4 * 4gb extreme III sandisk CFC's for the last 1 year. Used them at high altitude in Ladakh Himalayas at -25 degrees celsius, in Rajasthan in Jaisalmere extreme heat at 45 degrees celsius just no problem. Now I am going on a 5 country SE Asia tour and going to rely on them fully with my D70s. Its just memory and I dont think it works erratically the way it has been described in the link by Shun. :-)

My 2 bits.

 

Ajay

Sorry guys, I am a newbie to here so don't know how to thread and stuff, thanks for your advise, i will go back to the store tomorrow and give the camera guy some!! No only kidding, I will get a 4gb for my camera. Cheers!

You might want to rethink using a 4gb card with the D70s, only for the reason that it holds so many photos. If you fill the card up, and it gets corrupted, you're liable to lose a lot of images. 4gb is the size I use for my D300 and D700, even then it will hold more than 200 Raw files. I used 1gb cards with my D70s.

I have to agree with Dave Lee. I prefer using 1 gig cards in my D70. "Too many eggs in one basket" and "Murphy's Law" come to mind.

I (somewhat) disagree with Dave Lee & John Schroeder. For those who are shooting outside of the studio, smaller cards

increase the risks of either dropping the card when changing it, or missing a great shot because your camera is open at the

time. My preference is a card big enough that I don't have to change it till I am back in "not shooting" mode, i.e., back in my car,

sitting down to eat lunch while hiking, etc. For the way I shoot, missed opportunities are more likely than card failure.

 

I once saw a hawk swooping down & carrying away a ouse, just after I'd shot a lot of pictures of the surf coming in and making

pretty spray patterns as they hit the rocks. I got a few shots, then I was out of space. By the time I'd replaced the card, the hawk

had moved on.

 

Of course, at the end of the day I back up the pictures and reformat the card after they're in two places (laptop plus external

drive).

I have been using Nikon DSLRs for 6+ years and I have yet to lose one image due to memory card failure. I have had two memory card failures so far: one new Lexar card was dead on arrival and replaced. I had a Sandisk 4G card started acting up so that I wouldn't use it for any serious work; it eventually died a few weeks later (actually it is a 4G with two 2G halves; only 2G died and the other 2G is still ok).

 

Meanwhile, I have seen a number of cases where people juggling too many memory cards and eventually lose one (or two in one case).

 

Keep in mind that even though a memory card fails, if you have really important images on it, it can frequently be recovered although the recovery can be costly. If you physically lose a card, it is gone with absolutely no chance for any recovery at all.

 

Personally, I would buy at least 8G cards or larger from now on. There is no point to juggle with those tiny cards.

I shotraw with 2gig cards on my D100 and never has a corrupt image in thousands of shots. I've been shootting primarily with 4 gig (Sandisk Ultra II) cards on my D300 and no problems in 7,000 images. Recently bought two 8 gig Sandisks and haven't had any problems.

I got the 8GB scandisk II, which is working fine.

I use a Sandisk Extreme III 8GB in my D70s with never ever a problem.

At the low prices of CF cards today you can have the best of both worlds: get two 4GB cards and only fill one up

half way and then swap. Many eggs in two cards :-)

 

I would not want to use one card only. Too often I forgot a card in the card reader at my computer. Then I was

happy to have another card in the bag with the camera^^.