16GB CF Card not working in Fuji & Kodak Kiosks

AlbertZeroK

I have a 16G Transend 300X Compact Flash Card for my 50d. Works great in my computer, tried 4 different readers around the office and such, works at Ritz, but won't work in the Fuji or Kodak Kiosk computers at our local Wal-Mart (My wife works in the photo lab, so I get really great prints ).

I have done a check disk on the card, no problems. And we've tried 1G and 64M card in the kiosks and they all work. Of course Fuji and Kodak are saying the card is too big for the machine, however, cards this large have been out for a couple years.

I'm wondering if it's the UMDA part? Is there a different 16G Card I should be using? I love the speed of my card and the size is really what I want (I hate running out of space and love shooting RAW.)

Thoughts?

ziggy53

AlbertZeroK wrote:

I have a 16G Transend 300X Compact Flash Card for my 50d. Works great in my computer, tried 4 different readers around the office and such, works at Ritz, but won't work in the Fuji or Kodak Kiosk computers at our local Wal-Mart (My wife works in the photo lab, so I get really great prints ). ...

I'm wondering if it's the UMDA part? Is there a different 16G Card I should be using? I love the speed of my card and the size is really what I want (I hate running out of space and love shooting RAW.)

Thoughts?

I believe that UDMA cards are backwards compatible with non-DMA devices, so I don't think that's it.

I strongly suggest that you use a smaller card (2 GB should be compatible with everything) for transfer to a kiosk machine.

If these are original and only images straight from the camera there is no way I would trust a kiosk machine, so I hope that's not what you're doing. I know a lot of people do trust the kiosk machines but I would not recommend it.

ziggy53

Also Albert, I forgot to mention, welcome to the Digital Grin.

AlbertZeroK

ziggy53 wrote:

Also Albert, I forgot to mention, welcome to the Digital Grin.

Thanks!

Yeah, I was just out shooting some junk at the local state park - anything important, I definately wash through Lightroom.

It's so inconvient that my laptop doesn't have a CF card slot! I love my Nikon because it's so easy to download the pictures (got my eye on a EyeFi card too.) I hate having to get out my USB Memory card reader to read my CF Cards on my laptop.