CF Card issues
Nov 22, 2014 11:49:04 #
Not sure what is going on and looking for some clues. I have a D800 and have been using a 32gb Transcend CF card with no issues. Now all of a sudden my camera cannot read the card in fact when I put it in the camera is seems to hang trying to read it and nothing else functions till I remove the card. I put this same card in the wife's D800 and my D700 both read it fine just not mine. However my camera will read all the other CF cards we have including other Trancend 32gb. Is there and issue with the camera or card I wonder?
Nov 22, 2014 11:53:45 #
Nov 22, 2014 11:59:44 #
My camera will not function with this particular card in it at all. I have reformatted it in my computer as well as in my wifes D800 and my D700 works fine in theirs but still a no go in mine.
Nov 22, 2014 12:01:37 #
Nov 22, 2014 12:47:02 #
The Villages
Loc: The Villages, Florida
IF other cards work, it sounds like (for whatever reason) the card became bad.
Nov 22, 2014 13:04:43 #
I would agree but this card seems to function on other cameras, perhaps it is borderline bad
Nov 22, 2014 13:57:19 #
When I was in the Air Force we had a Data Link system that stopped working on an aircraft. We bench check both system boxes and they both checked good. So we put them both back in the aircraft and they wouldn't work. We then swapped one box with another aircraft and then both aircraft systems worked. After a lot of swapping of boxes we found that the two original boxes would not work in this one particular aircraft. Any other combination would work. So, what does this have to do with your problem? I believe both the camera and card are just fine. It is probably an impedance and/or voltage mismatch causing those two not to work together. I would mark that card and not use it in that camera for awhile. After 3 months we put the original "bad" boxes back into the original aircraft and everything worked. Low voltage electronics can be very fussy at times.
Nov 22, 2014 16:02:21 #
Nov 23, 2014 02:08:05 #
I had a Nikon CoolPix 5700 that used CF cards. I don't know how many times I had to straighten pins (especially end pins), before I wised up and bought an adapter that plugged into my CF socket and allowed me to use SD cards (it even had a reducer to use mini-SD cards). The problem I had was finding an adapter that allowed me to load my SD cards at the rear (most loaded on the side which would have necessitated removing the CF adapter anyway). As a precaution, I also got a small hemostat ("mosquito clamp") with smooth jaws and reshaped the jaws by bending them inward slightly to allow a parallel grip on the edge of the SD card for removal. I'm sure the technology of adapters has improved significantly in the past few years and CF adapters now have spring latch removal. Anyway, that was my problem with CF cards and my solution to the problem. AND I never rendered an SD card inoperable by using the hemostat.
Nov 23, 2014 05:47:23 #
Sometimes the pins in the camera that connect to the CFcan become bent. Check these out carefully
Nov 23, 2014 07:52:47 #
If this card used to work and no longer does, and if your camera reads other cards OK, then it seems likely that the problem is with that particular card. That makes its reliability suspect, even though it seems to work fine in other cameras. I suggest you save yourself a possible headache and simply get rid of it. Why walk around with a card in your camera that you have doubts about?
Nov 23, 2014 12:50:33 #
I think I am just going to set it aside the thought of losing a days work is alarming.Just don't understand why it works in other cams and not my D800
Nov 23, 2014 13:03:36 #
Jesterman wrote:
Not sure what is going on and looking for some clu... (show quote)
Well there is a tolerance issue, the card the camera? Could be either or both. One hopes it's the card. Some questions.
Is the firmware version the same on both D800s?
When doing the experiment in both D800s, was the state of charge on the batteries the same on both D800s?
When your D800 won't read the card, is it possibly related to the state of charge of the battery?
Nov 23, 2014 14:20:53 #
Flyfishn wrote:
Sometimes the pins in the camera that connect to the CFcan become bent. Check these out carefully
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Some years ago I had this occur with a Canon XTi - it was My Fault as I was in a rush to get another card into the slot. I BENT a pin in the rush and had to send the camera off to Canon for repair... Cost me about 100 U.S.D. to have it done.
LOOK into the slot and with a flash light see IF you have a bent or broken pin Down in There... I would not suggest that you try to repair this yourself. Just send it off to Canon and let them do it.
Nov 23, 2014 15:46:26 #
Good question on the firmware.mine is up to date but not sure about the wife's. As to battery state they both had good charge
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