New memory on old cameras -- how much?

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I recently bought a digital camera, used.
(It's a Vivitar Vivicam 3615.)
It takes Compact Flash memory, type 1.
How can I tell what is the maximum size memory it will take?
I found some literature that says it takes sizes 4 MB through 128 MB.
But that literature is a few years old. Maybe they weren't making CF
any bigger than 128 MB when it was written.

The friendly people at several stores told me that I could BUY their 1
GB memory card and see if it worked, then try to return the card if it
didn't. (Yeah, sure.)

Any good ideas?

Thank you!

Ted Shoemaker

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On 21 Jul 2005 19:42:37 -0700, shoemakerted@yahoo.com wrote:

>
>I recently bought a digital camera, used.
>(It's a Vivitar Vivicam 3615.)
>It takes Compact Flash memory, type 1.
>How can I tell what is the maximum size memory it will take?
>I found some literature that says it takes sizes 4 MB through 128 MB.
>But that literature is a few years old. Maybe they weren't making CF
>any bigger than 128 MB when it was written.
>
>The friendly people at several stores told me that I could BUY their 1
>GB memory card and see if it worked, then try to return the card if it
>didn't. (Yeah, sure.)
>
>Any good ideas?
>
>Thank you!
>
>Ted Shoemaker

Well, according to:
http://www.memoryx.net/vivi36me1.html

The maximum is 256MB, which should give you ~250 shots at highest
resolution.

I would, however, get it at a place like Wal-Mart or Target, where you
usually can return these types of things with little or no hassle.


DIZZLE

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In article <42E092A4.4090105@netscape.net>, spamme0@netscape.net says...
> I've found this to be UNTRUE for many classes of devices. To advertise
> compatibility with something that does not exist and can't be verified
> is something your lawyers won't let you do..if they're good lawyers.
> mike
>
>

I agree with this.

I have several cameras that are listed as 512mb maximum for memory. They all
work very well thank you very much with 2 gig memory cards.

When they were purchased, 512mb was the biggest card you could buy.

When the 1gig cards showed up I tried one and it worked, same with the 2gig
cards.

In case you are wondering they are 2 Fujis and a Sony.

The only camera I have that cant use a card larger than the manual states is
an old 3mp Toshiba PDR-3300 3mp.


--
Larry Lynch
Mystic, Ct.

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shoemakerted@yahoo.com writes:

> I recently bought a digital camera, used.
> (It's a Vivitar Vivicam 3615.)
> It takes Compact Flash memory, type 1.
> How can I tell what is the maximum size memory it will take?
> I found some literature that says it takes sizes 4 MB through 128 MB.
> But that literature is a few years old. Maybe they weren't making CF
> any bigger than 128 MB when it was written.
>
> The friendly people at several stores told me that I could BUY their 1
> GB memory card and see if it worked, then try to return the card if it
> didn't. (Yeah, sure.)

The cutoff point is likely to be 2GB. Anything larger will require the FAT32
filesystem (which older cameras did not support). On some cameras, you could
format the card on a PC bumping up block sizes and other disk formats, but it
didn't work on all cameras. You probably don't have to worry about buying fast
CF cards, since the camera likely can't write to the CF card fast enough.

Since it says compact flash type 1, that means you won't be able to use
microdrives of any flavor. If you could use type 2 cards, there are are iffy
drives out there (specifically Magicstor 2.2gig drives, and some of the early
IBM drives that used more juice than the current models).

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Michael Meissner
email: mrmnews@the-meissners.org
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