CF adapter for Minolta Maxxum 5D

[Nocurling]

i have an old maxxum 5d with very few clicks on it. i'd like to switch from the CF chip to an SD chip, so i bought the SDXC/SDHC 6th generation Extreme CF adapter (type II) and a SanDisk 80mb SD chip (class 10). however, the camera won't format the chip.

given the age of the camera (~12 years old) i'm guessing now that i should have purchased a type I adapter instead, but before i do that i'd like to know whether this even has a chance of working.

anybody out there have any experience with this?

thanx,
peter

 

[basroil]

Cameras that old were never meant to do that. Most likely it's a Fat16 (2GB) or FAT32 device with a lower size limit than your memory size....

Except that "80mb (class 10)" sounds like a fake chinese ripoff that will never work. Sandisk never made a class 10 SD card smaller than 8gb

 

[Nocurling]

my bad. that was supposed to be 80gb.

do you think it might work if i format the SD card using the card reader slot in my macbook air?

 

[basroil]

my bad. that was supposed to be 80gb.

do you think it might work if i format the SD card using the card reader slot in my macbook air?

Maybe, but I highly doubt it. Most cameras that old only support up to about 16GB, if even that. It's cheap to get memory cards that work, so why not just do that?

 

[bjornl]

Throwing money away.
That camera is only 6mp, fairly noisy and poor dynamic range. It was a lovely camera in it's day, I had the 7d and loved it. But it is so old and so out dated you can replace it quite cheaply with something which would produce far better results.