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What type and size memory card are you trying to use? The Z1 works with MMC and SD cards, 2GB or smaller. It will not work with higher capacity SDHC cards, even though they fit into the slot.
Your camera came out in 2003, before SDHC cards were invented. Chances are, the 4G card you're trying to use is not an SD but an SDHC card and won't work in your camera.
Hi. I think your camera is possibly a Minolta Dimage Z1, and if so two possible reasons for this problem come to mind.
1.) I think the Z1 was available around 2003, which in terms of cameras is quite a long time ago! In those days the cards had a relatively small capacity, commonly just Megabytes, and so the cameras were not designed to take the current crop of cards with much larger capacities, which are usually specified in Gigabytes. There are also newer types of SD card, such as SDHC, which sometimes cannot be handled by older cameras.
A review said about cards "The DiMAGE Z1 stores its images on SD memory
cards, and
a 16MB card accompanies the camera. (The camera also works with the
slightly
less expensive MMC cards.) I highly recommend picking up a larger
capacity card
right away, so you don't miss any important shots. (A 64 MB card
represents
a good tradeoff between capacity and cost.) Connection to a host
computer for
image download is via USB."
Therefore I guess you may have tried cards which are not suitable just because they are too big but the camera may be able to work again if you can find a small capacity SD card or Multimedia card.
2.) Another possibility is that the 'format' of the cards you have tried was not suitable. To test this you could try formatting them on a computer by right clicking the card's icon in the 'My Computer' window, to bring up the format options. If the camera can then see them you should reformat them by using the camera's menus.
Assuming this is an SD card, it may be that you are trying to use a high-capacity SDHC card in a camera which doesn't understand it. SDHC is not backwards compatible with SD.
A card with too large a memory may cause this message, even if it is a compatible type. Memory sizes have shot up recently, and even relatively young cameras may not be able to cope with the memories offered by the latest cards.
Another possibility is that the card (if new) has not been formatted, or (if used before) it may have become corrupted. The solution here is to format it, using the camera's inbuilt function for this purpose. This will effectively erase anything on the card, but it sounds like you have lost that anyway.
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