Memory card saying "full" when its not
I bought a toshiba 4gb sd hc memory card for my samsung digimax d73 camera and when i turn the camera on it says "memory full". However, if I take out the memory card and take some pictures then put the memory card back in, I can successfully copy those photos over to the memory card. Why cant I just take pictures with the card in? Thanks
Cameras - Samsung - DigiMax - Digimax D73 Digital Camera
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Your problem is that you are using an incompatible type of memory card.
Your camera was designed to use SD cards with a maximum capacity of 2GB. It cannot use larger capacity models, and is also incompatible with the later SDHC cards.
SDHC cards are the same shape and will fit your camera, but have differences beneath the skin and so won't work properly in your camera. Without any memory card in place your camera uses internal memory; it's then only by lucky chance that your camera has sufficient SDHC compatibility to allow you to transfer the internal memory image to the SDHC card when you subsequently insert it into your camera.
Your only solutions are to either use an SD card with a maximum capacity of 2GB or to replace the camera with a later model which is fully SDHC compliant.