has anyone tried this microdrive??/

[mmchenry68]

I have been looking at the ibm/magicstor microdrive cf+. I was just wondering if anyone else has tried it. It's just a little more than the 1gb microdrive and it has twice the storage. Just wondering what's the catch.

[easternherp]

Not sure what the difference is but you could try and email Fuji to see if it should work.

[ballroom_boy]

I noticed on one of their ads that they say the Fuji S2 is supported. Let us know if you get one of these MD's... would be a very cost effective storage solution!

[Wayne S.]

No they don't work well. I've posted this on 3 other strings. I bought 2 and used them in 2 different S2s. One card worked somewhat but was very unreliable. Would'nt initialize all the time.
The other did'nt work at all. Formating with the camera does'nt help. I know my S2 and it does'nt like these cards.

[mmchenry68]

Thanks for the info. I was afraid of that.

From listening to other digital photographers and looking at other posts in this forum, I think I will try to purchase multiple 256 mb or 512mb cards and an image tank. That way I can change them like rolls of film on photo shoots. I don't want to run the risk of losing big chunks of a photo shoot b/c of microdrive failure. After having my Hitachi 1 gig microdrive fail, the big cards kind of scare me.

For studio work I just started to use the firewire connection and camera shooting software. So far I really like it.

Thanks again for the reply.

Mary