D50 SDHC card compatibility issue

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I ordered a 4GB Extreme Sandisk card for the girl who shoots with me. She uses a Nikon D50 that I sourced for her a few months back.

The Camera is refusing to read her new card or my own Sandisk Ultra II 4 GB card either.

Couple of questions to any D50 owners out there:
1. Have you experienced any problems using 4GB cards with your camera.
2. I've come across this link about cards and D50s. http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-7905
In note 4 at the bottom of the page it suggests that you can format the card on your Mac/PC and it will then work ok. Has anyone tried this, does it work and does it only require doing initially? Also, when I plug the card into my card reader and I go into my Mac's disc utility, it gives me 5 way to format it. would MS-DOS (FAT) be the correct one?
 
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I ordered a 4GB Extreme Sandisk card for the girl who shoots with me. She uses a Nikon D50 that I sourced for her a few months back.

The Camera is refusing to read her new card or my own Sandisk Ultra II 4 GB card either.

Couple of questions to any D50 owners out there:
1. Have you experienced any problems using 4GB cards with your camera.
2. I've come across this link about cards and D50s. http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-7905
In note 4 at the bottom of the page it suggests that you can format the card on your Mac/PC and it will then work ok. Has anyone tried this, does it work and does it only require doing initially? Also, when I plug the card into my card reader and I go into my Mac's disc utility, it gives me 5 way to format it. would MS-DOS (FAT) be the correct one?
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the D50 can't read SDHC cards. Just normal SD ones. I'm not sure about the formatting in your card reader stuff I'm afraid
 
Hi mate, i have a d50 as back up and it won't accept anything over 2gb it's just not compatible with sdhc cards. Don't know the technical explanation for it but i know it it only accepts standard sd cards up to 2 gb. Hope this helps.
 
Don't know about the D50, but...

While it's not difficult playing with the filesystem parameters to handle more data I'd strongly advise against it. Many devices implement just enough for essential operations on a basic filesystem -- put a card formatted in any non-standard way into one of these and you risk having major problems.
 
shooter said:
Hi mate, i have a d50 as back up and it won't accept anything over 2gb it's just not compatible with sdhc cards. Don't know the technical explanation for it but i know it it only accepts standard sd cards up to 2 gb. Hope this helps.
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I can confirm that.
 
Same here - I used to have a D50 and from memory it only took non HC - SD cards
 
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