Canon Powershot SD1000 - capacity attributes

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:18:58 -0600, "P.Schuman"
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>We have a Canon Powershot SD1000 with a SD 2gb card..
>Using Windows XP, with or without the "wizard"
>there is no way to show the "capacity" of the card, max & remaining.

I don't have the SD1000, but other Powershots S3IS and SD850IS. These
cameras show the estimate of remaining pictures on the main display.
If you select the format card option you can see how full it is, then
cancel the format. Might work on the SD1000. Just be careful not to
format.

Or just get a 4gb card, and you won't be filling it up so fast.


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P.Schuman wrote:
> We have a Canon Powershot SD1000 with a SD 2gb card..
> Using Windows XP, with or without the "wizard"
> there is no way to show the "capacity" of the card, max & remaining.
>
> With all my other digital cameras, I'd just plug in the cable,
> and the camera would pop up as a removeable drive.... with all the
> attributes of a flash drive.
> With the new Canon SD1000, XP only shows it as a "camera" without the
> attributes...
>
>

Do not ever use a cable to transfer your in-camera pix to a computer or
recording device. If there is a power problem with the battery, then all
your pix can be lost. Get an inexpensive ($10-20) card reader for your
size memory card, remove the card from the camera, insert the card into
the reader, then plug the reader into your USB socket or whatever.

Good luck.

Morton
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Morton <mort RemoveThis @cloud9.net> wrote:
> P.Schuman wrote:
>> We have a Canon Powershot SD1000 with a SD 2gb card..
>> Using Windows XP, with or without the "wizard"
>> there is no way to show the "capacity" of the card, max & remaining.
>>
>> With all my other digital cameras, I'd just plug in the cable,
>> and the camera would pop up as a removeable drive.... with all the
>> attributes of a flash drive.
>> With the new Canon SD1000, XP only shows it as a "camera" without the
>> attributes...

> Do not ever use a cable to transfer your in-camera pix to a computer or
> recording device. If there is a power problem with the battery, then all
> your pix can be lost. Get an inexpensive ($10-20) card reader for your
> size memory card, remove the card from the camera, insert the card into
> the reader, then plug the reader into your USB socket or whatever.

Or if your camera has an external power option, simply plug it into
that as the same time as plugging it into the computer.

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