A quick and easy way to format your SD cards

You can go into Setup menu and format your SD cards or there is an easier way to do it without using your cameras menu system.

Here is how you do it.

You need to be able to hold town the Metering button found on top of your camera and the Delete button found on the upper left side of the back of the camera. You will note that next to both buttons the word FORMAT appears in RED LETTERS. Look at the LCD screen on top of your camera while holding down these two buttons. You should see the letters FOR start flashing. While they are flashing you can look at the right side of the top LCD screen and rotate the thumb wheel to choose which card to re format, card 1 or card 2. When you have the card selected that you wish to re format just release the two buttons and press them again to start the format. When the FOR stops flashing you are done.

I find that if I use my left thumb and index finger to hold down the buttons that the card slot is easily selected by my right thumb on the thumb wheel. The camera will default to the primary card so to format the second card you will need to choose it with the thumb wheel. REMEMBER when you format a card the pictures will be gone. Personally I tried this with two blank cards to check this out. This is a very quick and easy way to format your cards without using the menus. Jeff