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Few questions about Minolta A2

Started Feb 6, 2019 | Questions thread
neilt3
neilt3 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,008
Re: Few questions about Minolta A2

EXX wrote:

joelbolden wrote:

Michael Fritzen wrote:

I wouldn't discard completely the possibility that cards >4GB can be used but if I remember correctly the 4GB limit has to do with the file system used (FAT32). Anyhow 4GB should be fine even for shooting in non-compressed RAW. I started in 2004 with 512MB - really small for shooting RAW, then later I got a 2GB.

BTW a nice feature of the A2 is its time lapse operation.

My A2, which I use constantly, has an 8gb card. It affects the photo numbering sequencing in some manner, which is immaterial to me. I just found a Firmware upload link which updates my firmware from it's current 1.1 version to 1.4e. It requires a minimum of 16 GB...which I have on order.

You can update to 1.14e with a much smaller card. IIRC I used a 2GB card for the update. If you refer to firmware support for bigger CF cards: yes, for cards > 4 GB you should use 1.14.

BTW, it has little to do with the FAT32 limit: that limit is 2 TB. It is it's predecessor FAT that is limited to 4GB. So my educated guess is that the 1.14 firmware adds FAT32 support.

There is also another limit: both FAT and FAT32 are limited to a maximum file size of 4 GB per file. To bypass this problem, Microsoft released exFAT.

You can certainly use a card smaller than 16GB .

On the page for downloading the firmware on Minolta's website , there is a PDF which explains things .

It says you must use a card of 16MB or greater .

That's 16 Mega byte's , NOT 16 Giga byte's !

Follow the links here ; https://www.konicaminoltasupport.com/index.php?id=2308&L=0%2Fi

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Did they even have a 16GB card out when this firmware update was released ?

In any case , the card just has to hold the data for the cameras firmware .

Some modern cameras I think need a few hundred MB for it , I can't imagine any camera having firmware anywhere close to even 1 GB , let alone 16 .

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