NOT ALL SD CARDS ARE THE SAME

Recently, a young man called to ask if I could help him with a problem. His camera, which he'd had for some time, took SD memory cards. When he purchased a couple of new memory cards, he discovered that they would not work in his camera. It didn't take me long to realize that he had purchased SD-HC cards. His older camera was not compatible with SD-HC. So here's how it works. There's SD. There's SD -HC. AND NOW THERE'S SD-XC. EACH OF THESE CARDS HAS A HIGHER MEMORY CAPACITY - BUT THERE'S A CATCH. An SD-XC compatible camera will accept all three cards. A camera compatible with SD-HC will accept only SD or SD-HC. Older cameras that are only compatible with SD, will not take SD-HC or SD-XC. So the young man was stuck with having to contend with using SD with its maximum memory of two gigabytes. LARRY ELKINS - ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY