Small memory cards

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Since aquiring a GF1 I have decided to kick my Nikon 200/300 outfit into touch, it's all a little agricultural.............but mainly a size issue.. So it's the little wonder and three primes with optical finders, get the camera set up to produce the best quality large jpegs and try and forget the whole thing is digital. With memory being so cheap I shall use it in the same way as one did in the good old days. get the shot right at the taking stage and show on the matching Panasonic TV as a slide show with it's 16-9 ratio.............nice exercise doing portraits in landscape format.. Edit in camera, pop the card into the TV card reader, sit back and wonder just why yI ever bothered with Photoshop.With the benifit that the camera will also shoot a RAW file at the same time, just in case the miracle happens and something is worth printing. The memory card will be retained, just like a film.

But there is a problem. I need cards to match the capacity of film, 64,128mb. Can I find them? Nope 1 Gb seems normal. my nephew bought some 256mb from Tesco for me but the camera didn't recognise them so some advice would be appreciated..

So why not just use larger cards? It's a discipline thing silly;)

Any ideas?

Brian.

P.S. And those digital projectors seem to be getting a little bit tempting.:)
 
No, as I said it's a discipline thing. And for those who remember the cost of slide film and processing the price of memory cards is peanuts.

I suppose in a way I'm trying to use digital without faffing about with the technology of post processing, a thing which bores the pants off me.

Brian.
 
ebay, gumtree, or a freecycle request, there must be thousands of old cards in cupboards out there.

As for the tesco cards, i assume they are faulty and suggest returning them, it happened to a friend of mine (though with asda)

Nick
 
I'll agree with you about the costs, I've had about 45 films developed from my Fathers cameras and its cost a fortune compared to buying a new SD card!

I don't know if you could format the cards into smaller sizes?
 
Well done Graham I've ordered the 64mb ones, thanks.:clap:

Nick the Tesco cards worked fne in my nephews compact, but they had adaptors ( Funny things )and the GF1 just said " Go away"

Brian.
 
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