ike k Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 Hi all, I just got my 10d and what a marvelous camera it is and as a starting point to switch from film to digital there's no other way better than this, offcourse IMHO. Anyway I got mine with lexar 512mb CF card but I found that instead 512 it is only 488mb and I tried to reformat again after I tried to shoot some pics with RAW, it is still showing 488mb storage available, and it is only 16kb used, so is this normal guys? thanks and happy shooting! Ike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick_doan Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 Are you using the in camera formatting or the File Viewer formatting? when I first got my cards (Sandisk Ultra) the in camera formatting only gave me about 240megs out of 256megs, but when I formatted it using the File Viewer tools, It gave me about 250megs. Not sure why this happened, it just did with both cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skipd Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 The "problem" is probably related to the two ways of defining megabytes. A hard drive manufacturer (and probably CF card manufacturers) will state megabytes as 1,000,000 bytes per megabyte. However, a true megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes (it's the binary math). Thus when something is stated in true megabytes, the number is lower than the "advertised" number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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