Canon Powershot S2 and A-data Secure Digital card

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I recently purchased the Canon Powershot S2 IS. The 16Mb Secure Digital card
provided by Canon is so small that I have purchased 2 different 512Mb cards:

1. Pretec 60X card (from Fry's Electronics, locally)
2. A-data 50X card (from Amamax in Houston)

The Pretec card works fine in all modes. Stores full images in a fraction of
a second, allowing for rapid shooting.

The A-data card appears to be completely incompatible with the Canon S2.
Amamax has replaced the card, and I still get the following diagnostics when I
insert it and turn the camera on:

"Memory Card Error" & "Card Locked" (it isn't!!!)

All attempts to use both cards from Amamax have failed. I've notified Canon
Customer Service of the apparent incompatibility.

Has anyone else been able to use A-data SD cards in this Canon camera?


Vendor: http://www.amamax.com (Houston)
Mfgr: http://www.adata.com.tw (Taiwan)

I've written to both vendor and manufacturer.

--John

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I've had very good luck with PQI SD cards from Fry's for my S2 IS.

Bye.

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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:50:57 GMT, JohnInSD At san DOT rr dot
COM <bitbucket@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Has anyone else been able to use A-data SD cards in this Canon camera?

Don't know about your Canon, but A-data doesn't work in my
Ricoh GX, but it does work fine in a Panasonic FZ1 and
Pentax *istDS. It seems a better bet sticking to known
brands, in my case Sandisk and Kingston which have never
caused my any problem in any camera.

--
Regards

John Bean

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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:50:57 GMT, JohnInSD At san DOT rr dot COM
>Has anyone else been able to use A-data SD cards in this Canon camera?
>
>
>Vendor: http://www.amamax.com (Houston)
>Mfgr: http://www.adata.com.tw (Taiwan)
>
>I've written to both vendor and manufacturer.
>

With no response from the manufacturer and the vendor no longer answering my
e-mails, I called my credit card company (Discover) about the situation. They
have now taken over the attempts to get a working card from the vendor; I have
a temporary credit on my account for the purchase price of the A-data card;
and the vendor has 30 days to either issue a full credit, or send me a working
card. Otherwise, the refund will be made permanent, and the amount of the
purchase will be billed back to the vendor.

Kudos to Discover Card!!!

--John

Adata. I have just purchased a Canon Mf200 video and get "write error" problems wit a
Adata 8gig card. Looks like they are not good.

Andrew
Auckland
New zealand