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Hello,

I have an old and trusty D2h and recently acquired a Sandisk 16gb Extreme Pro card. To my surprise the D2h won't work with the card. This is the only card the D2h is having problems with. As far as I know the D2h works with 16gb cards. Can anyone confirm this?

The 16gb card will work with the D3 and D3s, so it seams the card is fine.

The D2h works with other cards, so it will also seem the D2h is fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
 
Perhaps the D2h predates 16gb cards?
 
I believe udma is the problem
 
Exactly, the problem is the SDcard that does not match the onboard card reader capabilities.

The D2H need a SD or SDHC card, not working with SDXC...

Standard Capacité
SD ≤ 2 Go9
SDHC > 2 Go - 32 Go9
SDXC > 32 Go - 2 To9
 
I don't think so. Last I looked you wouldn't find anywhere in a D2H to stick an SD card.
Gon0S said:
Exactly, the problem is the SDcard that does not match the onboard card reader capabilities.

The D2H need a SD or SDHC card, not working with SDXC...

Standard Capacité
SD ≤ 2 Go9
SDHC > 2 Go - 32 Go9
SDXC > 32 Go - 2 To9
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I Finally upgraded the bios in my D700. I had put in a 32 gig card. I had about 500 shots on the card and I went to down load it. Only half down loaded and were erased. Half were left in the camera.

(huh? scratch head, scratch butt, shrug, go back to making dull pictures would put a stone statue to sleep)

Get done with my paean to mediocrity and tell the camera to Format.

It says it did (but it din't)

Light dawns.

Go to the internet and discover that A=1.000 and B=1.000 are not the latest (who'da thunk)

Upgrade BIOS and suddenly it recognizes entire card.

Tell it to Format and it does.

Life is good.

Now if I only had a shred of talent.
 
gabgon said:
Hello,

I have an old and trusty D2h and recently acquired a Sandisk 16gb Extreme Pro card. To my surprise the D2h won't work with the card. This is the only card the D2h is having problems with. As far as I know the D2h works with 16gb cards. Can anyone confirm this?

The 16gb card will work with the D3 and D3s, so it seams the card is fine.

The D2h works with other cards, so it will also seem the D2h is fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
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Well I contacted Nikon, but I got no answers. I was told it may not work because the card is too fast for the camera, it may have a different file system, it may have a higher capacity than the camera was designed for etc. . .

I've gone ahead and checked the Sandisk website and they show the Nikon D2h being approved with 16gb Sandisk Extreme CF cards, but not Extreme Pro 16gb cards. I don't know if that's because they never got around to testing the newer cards on older D2h cameras or if there's really a compatibility issue.

I'm still stuck unknowing what's going on.

Anybody tried a 16gb Extreme Pro on their D2h?
 
sometimes some cameras just don't like certain cards and that's as good as it gets for an explanation

D2H files are so small and CF cards are so cheap I wouldn't waste any more energy on this if I were you. Just use a different card.
 
If it helps, I just tested a 32GB SDHC in a D2H (and a D2HS, D2x and D2xs) and it works fine
 
Red5racing said:
If it helps, I just tested a 32GB SDHC in a D2H (and a D2HS, D2x and D2xs) and it works fine
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SDHC in a D2H?

One of those two things can't be true.
 
Did you mean a 32gb CF? Or did you use a SDHC with some sort of adapter?

I'm sure the D2h can see 16gb cards, I just don't know if the 160mb transfer speed is causing some issues with the Sandisk Extreme Pro.

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Latest high speed SDcard are using SDXC chips crippled down to match the lower size that use to be done with SD chips. If the body sports a SD/SDHC reader and firmware only, you can do whatever you want, it will not be able to read properly a SDXC chip.

Don't try to mess with this, get an older tech SDcard or a proper CF card (but warning, even in the CF world some new chips may gave you compatibility problem, just check the hardware compatibility list from Nikon).
 
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