Max SD card size in D5000?

Google is vague and haven't heard back from Nikon support. If I have the latest firmware, anyone know how high they can go? 128 GB SD card? 32? No clue. But buying cards now and need the info.

Any help greatly appreciated!

They are all the same size regardless of capacity unless you mean the micro-SD cards often used in mobile 'phones.

David Lal said:

They are all the same size regardless of capacity unless you mean the micro-SD cards often used in mobile 'phones.

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Sorry, I didn't mean the physical dimensions of a SD card. But the GB that can be stored on it. I'd be stunned if such a basic camera could use a 256GB SD card.

net1994 said:

David Lal said:

They are all the same size regardless of capacity unless you mean the micro-SD cards often used in mobile 'phones.

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Sorry, I didn't mean the physical dimensions of a SD card. But the GB that can be stored on it. I'd be stunned if such a basic camera could use a 256GB SD card.

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I was just joking with you.

I know what you meant - but why do you want such a large (capacity) card? All the more to lose if or when things go wrong. Maybe you are into large videos? I use 16gb cards max in most of my cameras and never fill them up.

Not sure about D5000 but I have a 256-GB card in my D7200 with no issues.

net1994 said:

Google is vague and haven't heard back from Nikon support. If I have the latest firmware, anyone know how high they can go? 128 GB SD card? 32? No clue. But buying cards now and need the info.

Any help greatly appreciated!

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SanDisk says their SDXC cards are compatible and those have capacities of up to 128GB.

D5000 Compatible Cards (SanDisk)

When I had a D5000 I was using a 64GB card and it was not the limit. I never managed to fill it completely as I always download images after every photo shoot, process, save on a hard drive and clear card.

The D5000 appears to be SDHC-compliant, but not SDXC-compliant. (Sources: the D5000 manual; the D5000 review on this site). The largest supported capacity for SDHC is 32 GB.

net1994 said:

Google is vague and haven't heard back from Nikon support. If I have the latest firmware, anyone know how high they can go? 128 GB SD card? 32? No clue. But buying cards now and need the info.

Any help greatly appreciated!

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I used a 16GB card with the D5000, and that held a lot of photos.

I realize this is an old thread, but just in case the following would help someone in the future:

I've been using 64gb SDXC1 cards in my D5000 for quite awhile and thought I had no problems. Recently I tried to use interval timer shooting but was unable. Spent quite a bit of time searching for reasons & ran across many hypotheses, almost none of which helped.

However, someone suggested they'd solved their problem by switching to a smaller capacity card. Seeing one of the comments above about the D5000 not being compatible with SDXC cards, I decided to try an SDHC card in place of the SDXC card. It worked and interval timer shooting functionality returned.

Unfortunately I don't have many SDHC cards lying around, so I can't determine what maximum size SDHC card will work and provide functioning interval timer shooting.

I never thought the suitability of a particular card would be partial. I assume they would work or not. If they worked at all, I assumed everything would work. Apparently that's a poor assumption.

Howard

edited to correct sloppy acronyms

Howard70 said:

Seeing one of the comments above about the D5000 not being compatible with SDXC cards, I decided to try an SDHC card in place of the SDXC card. It worked and interval timer shooting functionality returned.

Unfortunately I don't have many SDHC cards lying around, so I can't determine what maximum size SDHC card will work and provide functioning interval timer shooting.

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A SDHC card, by definition, has a capacity of "more than 2 GB" and "up to 32 GB". Since the D5000 supports SDHC and does NOT support SDXC, I would assume that the D5000 would be happy to accept 32 GB SDHC cards.

That's not to say that you can do 32 GB worth of interval shooting. There might be a few other constraints, like the battery running flat long before the camera could take several thousand interval-timed pictures.

I have used a much larger card to shoot pictures. The issue with the larger cards for me was shooting video. It was not an option with the wrong type of card. We had two D5000's side by side, one shot video perfect and one didn't. Swapped cards and the non-functioning camera shot video perfect.

I have a 64GB card in my D3500 with no issues at all. It's a Promaster SDXC card that came with my Nikon D3500 when I bought it as a bundle deal from my local camera store in town. On the "small" photo setting, it will display 21.5k in the corner viewfinder... 21,500 photos?!? Seriously?!?

ButchA61 said:

I have a 64GB card in my D3500 with no issues at all. It's a Promaster SDXC card that came with my Nikon D3500 when I bought it as a bundle deal from my local camera store in town. On the "small" photo setting, it will display 21.5k in the corner viewfinder... 21,500 photos?!? Seriously?!?

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I don't have the camera, but looking up the camera manual (you do have a copy of that don't you Butch? - either hardcopy or e-copy or both), it appears you are are recording photos at JPEG Normal, small, and would have photos already on the SD card. (Or, you are recording at JPEG basic, small, and about half the card filled.) You seem to be surprised as what the SD card will hold? Or, are questioning the accuracy of what the camera is telling you? Enjoy the camera! Stay Safe!

Thanks, I was just surprised by the amount of photos the 64GB SDXC could hold, according to small JPEG settings.

ButchA61 said:

I have a 64GB card in my D3500 with no issues at all. It's a Promaster SDXC card that came with my Nikon D3500 when I bought it as a bundle deal from my local camera store in town. On the "small" photo setting, it will display 21.5k in the corner viewfinder... 21,500 photos?!? Seriously?!?

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(64000 MB / 21500) = the camera is guessing that an average "Small" photo will take up about 3 MB. The D3500 manual estimates that Small JPEG Normal files take 2.1 MB, on average. If that includes filesystem overhead, the 21.5k figure might be conservative.