I HAVE AN OLYMPUS E-500. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF I CAN USE A 4GB COMPACT FLASH IN THIS CAMERA.

The camera can use Compact Flash cards, Microdrives, and/or xD Picture cards.

A 4GB CompactFlash card should work in your Nikon Coolpix, but you may only be able to use 2GB of it's space once formatted correctly. This camera formats the cards in the FAT file system. That basically means that one can only use up to 2GB of memory (2048 MB).

Check out this site for instructions:
http://www.techsupportforum.com/222-newly-formatted-4gb-compact-flash-card-out-of-memory-digital-camera/

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Install flash on hot shoe and use shutter speed on camera set to no faster than 1/125. Read the owners manul for flash AND camera. Be careful, some trigger voltages may be higher than what your cdamera can handle and may ruin internal flash usage, if not camera itself. better to use a Wein Safesynch hot shoe. This mounts ion hotshoe of camera and flash is attached to this.

Your camera uses CF type I or II cards. Since it was first introduced in 2002 I believe it has no support for 4GB cards. But since it's a 5MB camera, you can get some 500 frames on one 2GB card. Just need to pack some more of those for a photo-safari.

esupport.sony.com for manual and trouble shooting;

You may need to format the card. There should be a Format command in the Setup menu. To be more specific, one would need to know which model of Finepix camera you refer to.

You should contact Olympus about this.

Olympus have had a recall on some older 35mm film cameras for problems with the flash circuit.

Please see -

Olympus Recall

http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_recall.asp

Hope this helps,

Vincent

Not sure if this will help, but it seemed to fix my issue......I used a freshly charged battery. Removed both xD and Compact Flash memory from the camera. Powered on. You will see the menu flash and read that there is no card inserted. Power down. Place memory back in the camera. I can't explain my issue. The camera may have gone into a stand-by mode until the battery died and it just needed a reset? Anyway, hope this can be of use to someone. =0)

This suggests the flash capacitor has malfunctioned
Check Olympus for a warranty replacement or repair cost- according to age of camera. If it is an older model a new camera may be best bet

download the pictures from the camera direct using the appopriate USB cable, you should have no problem then..
I had exactly the same issue, with my freinds camera, turned out that my card reader just didn't like the card, I got an external reader and that worked fine.