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D800/D800E
D800E and CF card formatting
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<blockquote data-quote="voxmagna" data-source="post: 496038" data-attributes="member: 38477"><p>I don't have your camera but using a magnifying glass check the 2 rows of pins in the CF slot. They are very fragile and easily broken, which is why serial SD cards are better. However, if you get the CF slot working and can get large cards, CF is still faster than most SD cards and only limited in speed by in-camera processing.</p><p></p><p>The usual path to disaster is a CF card is badly inserted into a CF card reader on a PC. A pin breaks off and stays stuck in the card. The next time that card goes in the camera, the blocked pin socket crunches the camera pin. I did manage to straighten a pin once on a reader, but it is 50-50 chance of success or the pin breaks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="voxmagna, post: 496038, member: 38477"] I don't have your camera but using a magnifying glass check the 2 rows of pins in the CF slot. They are very fragile and easily broken, which is why serial SD cards are better. However, if you get the CF slot working and can get large cards, CF is still faster than most SD cards and only limited in speed by in-camera processing. The usual path to disaster is a CF card is badly inserted into a CF card reader on a PC. A pin breaks off and stays stuck in the card. The next time that card goes in the camera, the blocked pin socket crunches the camera pin. I did manage to straighten a pin once on a reader, but it is 50-50 chance of success or the pin breaks. [/QUOTE]
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