Formatting through the Menu System (Page 3): I format my Nikon via the menu, mostly because I forget about the two-button-formatting feature, which is faster and easier. :sm06: What...

peterg Loc: Santa Rosa, CA

I format my Nikon via the menu, mostly because I forget about the two-button-formatting feature, which is faster and easier.

What formattting does to the memory card is a different subject. I'm assuming Nikon formatting via the menu or two-buttons is the same.

twillsol Loc: St. Louis, MO

jerryc41 wrote:

Lately, I've been formatting my SD cards through the Menu of my D750. It seems faster, and it's easier to read. With the red buttons, it seems iffy, and selecting card 1 or card 2 makes me read tiny letters. Do any of you use the Menu system to format. Aside from Nikon, I don't know of other cameras that have buttons to format cards.

I have always used the menu system. It is usually the last thing I did with the menu, so as soon as I hit the menu button, it says, Format Card. Quick and easy.

cmcaroffino Loc: Sebring, FL

On my Nikon's I use both menu's and the red buttons. Menus are easier to switch between cards. On my Fuji X-T2 push and hold the the trash button and push the rear dial and it takes you to a format screen. On the D7500 I have the format option added to My Menu screen which I access with the function button. The D750 didn't have that option

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

quixdraw wrote:

I think this is what he's talking about. Interesting, thanks!
https://havecamerawilltravel.com/photographer/nikon-dslr-format-memory-card/

Blair Shaw Jr Loc: Dunnellon,Florida

I only format when I install a new or different card and do most erasing in-camera when no longer needed. I download my images daily and sort them by date....not subject because the time element is more important to me not the subject.

I know this will probably bother some folks but I like to flip through old files unaware of their contents to be pleasantly surprised by the discovery of old events and I can also observe the changes in style , process & hardware-employed at the time it was taken and thereby get a better appreciation for it. It's a stroll through memory lane for me , personally and not very professional but I am only a happy beginner-for-life and never intended on getting older or wiser.

peterg Loc: Santa Rosa, CA

cmcaroffino wrote:

On my Nikon's I use both menu's and the red buttons. Menus are easier to switch between cards.

I think switching cards via the two-button method is faster and easier assuming you can read the microscopic card icon on the Control Panel LCD. I think it always defaults to the primary slot.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

I always use the Menu.

hpucker99 Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

jerryc41 wrote:

Lately, I've been formatting my SD cards through the Menu of my D750. It seems faster, and it's easier to read. With the red buttons, it seems iffy, and selecting card 1 or card 2 makes me read tiny letters. Do any of you use the Menu system to format. Aside from Nikon, I don't know of other cameras that have buttons to format cards.

I format the cards in my D750 using the menu system, not the red button. Reading your post I might try the red button and see what happens. For my other cameras, I use the menu system to format the cards.

tdunkin Loc: Delaware

I have the D750 as well and always use the menu to format the cards. For off loading photos I plug in a usb cord on the side of the camera. I never take the cards out of the camera.

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

I Format in the camera I am going house the card in. It take about 2 sec. I shoot with 2 Canons (5D & 7D). the time of formatting 2 cards in each is worth the guarantee my card is properly formatted in the camera I am about to use it in.

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

do it all the time!

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

Blair Shaw Jr. I do the same storage also but, I store by date directly come the camera as taken then work my pictures and store by subject an another external hard drive.
The other point I lost a drive years ago (about10) so now I do two drives of each. The result being I now use 4 8TB drives.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

jerryc41 wrote:

Lately, I've been formatting my SD cards through the Menu of my D750. It seems faster, and it's easier to read. With the red buttons, it seems iffy, and selecting card 1 or card 2 makes me read tiny letters. Do any of you use the Menu system to format. Aside from Nikon, I don't know of other cameras that have buttons to format cards.

I don't do it any other way. There is no format button on a Panasonic Lumix, just the menu option.

It should be said that formatting in the camera is THE right place to do it. Yes, someone will point out that we can format memory cards with a computer, but what that will not do is write any camera-specific files and folders to the card that are needed for a particular camera model to work properly.

When I used Canons and Nikons a decade ago, I always formatted my CF cards in the camera that I was using. I NEVER mixed them up after the first time I did, when I came back from a one time event with nothing. The Nikon D70 had acted normally, but recorded nothing. I reformatted the card in that camera, and it worked fine after that. (The "problem" card had been formatted in a Canon EOS 40D.)

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

jerryc41 wrote:

Lately, I've been formatting my SD cards through the Menu of my D750. It seems faster, and it's easier to read. With the red buttons, it seems iffy, and selecting card 1 or card 2 makes me read tiny letters. Do any of you use the Menu system to format. Aside from Nikon, I don't know of other cameras that have buttons to format cards.

No, nothing like that on my Pentax cameras. Via Menu FORMATTING only. Still learning my Fuji so who knows with that?

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

It's a simple habit why fool with it.