What memory card for an older camera?

ANNA · 14 May 2018 at 12:12PM

I've been given a Panasonic Lumix camera from 2004, model DMC-FZ20.

There is no SD card included. I can see from the booklet that it would have been a 16MB SD card included originally:D. It mentions getting a multi-media version for shooting videos.

I want to buy an SD card on eBay/Amazon, but what should I look for? Panasonic customer chat had no information.

I'd like a newer, faster card if it would work.

Geodark · 14 May 2018 at 12:40PM

I would be very careful about ordering SD cards from Amazon or Ebay, a lot of them are fake and don't have the memory stated on them.

bob_a_builder · 14 May 2018 at 1:38PM

Buy from a retailer who you know will honor returns without any fuss

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/test-and-detect-fake-or-counterfeit-usb-flash-drives-bought-from-ebay-with-h2testw/

Its the class which generally determines speed - 10 being the best

I have Panasonic DNC-TZ18 (quite old now)- with class 10 16GB - no probems

googler · 14 May 2018 at 2:01PM

Older cameras are likely to have a limit on card capacity, which may not by the capacity of the supplied card. If you don't have a manual for it, look for specs online

EDIT

ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/camera/om/dmc-fz20pp_mul_om.pdf

The table showing how many shots will fit on a card goes up to 1Gb (page 18), so that would seem to suggest that's the maximum it will take....

Johnmcl7 · 14 May 2018 at 2:52PM

This model definitely doesn't support SDHC which limits it to 2GB which seem to work apart from for TIFF files:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/fz20/discuss/72157594149365564/

John

spakkker · 16 May 2018 at 12:23PM

Don't spend any money on this dinosaur of a camera.

googler · 16 May 2018 at 2:28PM

ANNA wrote: »

I've been given a Panasonic Lumix camera from 2004, model DMC-FZ20.

There is no SD card included.

spakkker wrote: »

Don't spend any money on this dinosaur of a camera.

Since the OP needs an SD card to make use of it, there seems no alternative but to buy one. Unless you want to donate them a freebie?

ANNA · 16 May 2018 at 10:40PM

I've purchased a Kingston 2GB SD memory card on eBay at £4, hardly a big spend, and I'll let you know how I get on.

What memory card for an older camera?

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