Question about memory banks

13 years 1 month ago #37806 by PavementPilot
I posted this on another forum I participate in, and thought I would post here aswell, to see if I get some different angles to this question.

On some of the models of camera, I have seen discussion on memory banks. I know these are used to store settings and parameters for various shooting setups. My question is, where are these stored, in the onboard camera memory or on the media card?

The reason I am asking is, would it be feasible to have the next generation entery level cameras with memory set ups, but stored on the card. Or lets take it one step futher, allow all cameras to store it there, and have software on a PC, where as you can program banks there and load them onto the card for the camera to use. This is done already with firmware updates.

I realize these can be lost with the 'Format Card' function on the camera, but would partitioning the card stop this, and could the cameras be made to understand partitions?


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13 years 1 month ago #37911 by Baydream
Interesting idea. I'm sure it's possible. The question is will it create more demand for a camera. Many of the bells and whistles on the latest cameras seem more geared to "selling" than producing better photographs.

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13 years 3 weeks ago #46769 by gpoole
All the user settings are stored in the camera. They are not lost by changing or formating memory cards.

On a D300 or later (you must have on of these to be talking about memory banks) you can save and later reload most of the settings to your memory card. You do this through the "Save/load settings" item in the the Setup Menu. Formatting a memory card will erase the saved settings, but not the in camera ones.

Many people save a master set of settings on an old small memory card (say 32Mb or less) used only for this purpose.


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13 years 3 weeks ago #47088 by Joves

gpoole wrote: All the user settings are stored in the camera. They are not lost by changing or formating memory cards.

On a D300 or later (you must have on of these to be talking about memory banks) you can save and later reload most of the settings to your memory card. You do this through the "Save/load settings" item in the the Setup Menu. Formatting a memory card will erase the saved settings, but not the in camera ones.

Many people save a master set of settings on an old small memory card (say 32Mb or less) used only for this purpose.


Yep you covered it for the newer models. At the Nikon Cafe I think people were talking about sharing each others settings for others to use.


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