Why is my camera memory card not working ?

Question

I have a digital camera. I needed more space for pictures so i bought a new SD card from memorybits.com

When i put the card in the camera it just says "card can not be used". But it works fine in my computer. Do these card need to be formated before use.

Camera is a Vivitar

Model is Vivicam 4000

Answer 1

make sure that you bought right card : sd , sd micro , memory stick , memory stick micro . they all are different and wont work on phone if card format isn't correct

Answer 2

no it does not need formatting you have bought or they have miss advertised the wrong card, i bought one from there and it worked for a week. better off buying off ebay.

Answer 3

What card capacity did you buy ... many Vivitar and other non-mainstream P&S cameras cannot use cards larger than 2GB ... some as small as 512MB

It is always a good idea to format your card after each use .. after you have moved the image files to your computer.  This refreshes the card, writes new file folders and an new image index file (FAT16 or FAT32)