or what to do if your Canon 5D formats your 12G Compact Flash card down to 8G

the problem

The thing is, that the Canon 5D will happily read and write a 12G compact flash card (or maybe even a 16G one if I could afford to buy one of those). But if you try to format the thing in the camera, it'll partition it down to a nice neat 8G and you'll lose 33% of your expensive capacity. I daren't even show the thing to my 1Ds: who knows what that would do to it. As it's generally good practice to format the CF cards in situ, many people do that. Do it on one of these cameras and you'll be displeased with the results.

Canon fixed this in a firmware update about a year after it happened. I'll leave the page here anyway.

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