"musical" CF

Ok, i have only one 1gig CF, a sandisk. I have 2 digital cameras....canon 20d and a canon point and shot. I would take my CF and use it in both. Sometimes it would have both pictures from the p/s and my 20d together until its full. I shot in RAW+S JPG and L JPG. Then i would empty it out onto my laptop, i have a card reader too. I format my cards in-camera on my 20d.

My question is...Is this a bad habit? Am i'm damaging my CF card, am i in any risk in losing the pictures? Thanks.

Ryan

I plan on buying another CF card when i get money. Get it off newegg.com or something. In the time being...is it bad?



Ryan

I don't think you'll damage the card but there might be a potential for losing images. I've shot jpegs from two different cameras on the same card but that's really not a good idea without downloading and reformatting - then there wouldn't be any problem.

FWIW, I just bought a 2G SanDisk (standard slow one, my camera is old enough that it won't make a difference) for a little over $50 from newegg. Works great.

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I don't think you'll damage the card but there might be a potential for losing images. I've shot jpegs from two different cameras on the same card but that's really not a good idea without downloading and reformatting - then there wouldn't be any problem.

FWIW, I just bought a 2G SanDisk (standard slow one, my camera is old enough that it won't make a difference) for a little over $50 from newegg. Works great.

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No it will not damage the card, the cards us DOS FAT, or Windows 95 FAT 32. The cards are a solid state hard drive. Unless you have a bad camera that overwrites files there is not a great chance of losing photos (the photos are saved as files).

alrite...good. I guess my other CF card can wait a little bit longer. Thanks for all of the technical responses.