Blacksnoopy wrote: Can Nikon D50 use SDHC Class 6 cards? For example this Transcend card Absolutely not! I called Nikon several years ago asking about whether cards larger than 2GB could be used and was told by Nikon's tech. Support that it was unlikely but possible, since the D50's firmware supports the FAT32 file system.
I bought a 4GB Transcend SD card (regular SD, not SDHC) and it worked, sort of. The D50 will NOT format 4GB cards. Attempting to do so makes the card unusable. But I was able to put the non-usable card in a small Powershot P&S, and after it formatted the card, it was then usable by the D50.
Dec 5, 2009 - My card reader reconizes the regular cf,sd cards, but DOES not reconize when i put a sdHC(hi. 4 gigabyte barrier limitation patch for SDHC.
It might also have worked if the 4GB card was formatted by a computer but I never tried that. The SDHC cards are too different for them to work using this trick I'm afraid and a firmware update may not be sufficient. In any case, Nikon's firmware web page (see below) shows that for the D50 there are 'no firmware updates available'. Blacksnoopy wrote: Thank you for the answers.
So I am going to buy small and slow 2 GB card There should be nothing to worry about unless you somehow manage to find extremely slow SD cards. When DPReview tested the D50 (five years ago!) they used 1GB Sandisk Extreme III and 512MB Lexar High Speed SD cards.
These were able to transfer files to the computer at 9,735 and 5,720 KB/sec. But when the camera had its write performance tested by saving bursts of RAW image files, the rates were almost identical, 3,746 and 3,712 KB/sec. This shows that the D50 is most likely the bottleneck, not the card. The D70 shoots at a rate of 2.9 fps for up to 12 images then slows to 2.4/2.2 fps. Although its continuous rate is slower the D50 puts in a pretty impressive performance, you can shoot continuously for six seconds (16 images) before the camera slows to a still usable 1.6 fps rate.
The D50 puts in an almost identical performance to the D70, despite the switch in media type. This hints that write performance on this camera is more a function of image processing rather than actual interface throughput. Taking no longer than two seconds to write a full resolution JPEG is very fast and shouldn't cause any complaints among owners, it means there's virtually always space in the camera's large buffer for the next shot. Nope, it definately doesnt support SDHC cards - I looked into this last year. Most people that had tried ended up with lost shots and cards that didnt work properly as the D50 doesnt have a firmware update that supports it.
I ended up buying 20 ish sd cards to take to namibia last year, and will be taking them with me this year. It's not the fastest or the best, but it is a solution to a very annoying problem. On the plus side if you have a problem with one card you wont lose all your images shot on one 4gb card for example!!
I've checked the prior threads, and have not found the answer. In this respect, I am specifying specifics. I presently have a Hp P6370t, Windows 7. On the PC, the card reader states SD/MINI/MMCRS/PLUS/MOBILE. A recent camera purchase allows the use of SDHC. Will the above computer read SDHC? Is this contingent upon the operating system, USB 1, or 2, or the reader itself?
I plan on using a class 10 memory card, which displays iiself as UHS-1. Would there be any significance as to class 4, 6, or 10, in terms of 'reading' the memory card? Any and all replies welcome. Thank you very much.