Hi All. I have the camera in the subject line & I also have a jessop's own brand 256mb compactflash card. After looking on the net for the serial number on the edge - THNCF256MMA (T00CB) I find that this is a Toshiba card. Anyway, to the problem. When using the camera, all is well, except when I switch the camera straight onto play mode, the camera cannot read the card. The error is `unable to use card'. When I power onto the record mode, then onto to the play mode, all is well. Does anybody else use this combination with success? Regards, Stu.