Anyone seen a 255 picture limit with the Canon PowerShot SX200IS camera with an 8 GB card?

[herb757]

Is there a picyure limit of 255 with the PowerShot SX200IS?

[John_]

Yes 255 is almost a binary number...those cards are not very expensive I'd try a new one. I do not think it is your camera.

Do you have a card reader in your computer to look in the card to see what it says as far as space used vs. space left in it?

[herb757]

When I put the card in my card slot on my computer it says I have about 7.9GB free before I start taking pictures.  Something wierd is preventing more than 255 pictures to be saved to the card.

[John_]

Yes try a new card the rest of the sectors on your old card might be corrupted meaning they are there but won't allow any storage to them

[Waddizzle]

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@herb757 wrote:

The card is an 8GB Centon SDHC.  I fomatted it in the camera.  I actually did it twice,  I just got the camera from my son-in-law and took about 400 pictures on vacation and only got 255.  After downloading the 255 pictures to my computer I then formatted the card again and took 300 random pictures to see if it happened again.  It did, only 255!  It's interesting to note that 255 = 2 raised to the 8th power minus1.

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Yes, the 255 figure could be a tell tale.  What type of computer and software are you using to perform the transfer? 

Push come to shove, you could always remove the card from the camera and read it directly with a computer, or with a card reader stick.

[herb757]

I'm using a Dell  windows 8.1 computer.  I have transferred the pictures by removing the card and having it inserted into the card reader slot.  I also transferred the pictures by using the USB cable.  The same result.  Only 255 pictures appear.

[herb757]

Thanks for all the feedback.  I just ordered a new (different brand) card on Amazon and I'll try that scan.

[kvbarkley]

Try to store more than 255 files with the computer.

[Waddizzle]

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@kvbarkley wrote:

Try to store more than 255 files with the computer.

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Something that has been floating around in my head is the possibility that the camera cannot write more than 255 files to a single folder.  Because of file naming conventions, many Canon DSLRs cannot write more than 9999 files to a folder.

[herb757]

Great idea about folders!  I think that may be the solution.  I just created a second folder.  The first folder was 100canon and the second folder is named 101canon.  I'll start adding pictures when i get some time and see if I get 255 in each folder.  I wonder how many folders I can create.  That solution would be great especially when I go on vacation and create a folder for each day.  Thanks again and I hope that works.

[Waddizzle]

According to page 140 of the Instruction Manual, the camera can only store up to 2000 images in a single folder.

The above image was taken from page 57 of the "Software Starter Manual", as referred to in the Instruction Manual.