suntouched wrote:
This morning I tried to reinsert my SD card into my Panasonic GX8 but the mechanism that holds the card in is not working. It will slide into the space but the card will not seat in like usual. I removed the battery and tried again, I removed the lens and tried again. I tried a different SD card. Any other ideas?
So it doesn't lock into place. I always worry about that happening, and you've just proven that all my worrying was worth it!
"Common problem with Canon Consumer DSLR's, normally requires a new SD card PCB."
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Repair
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"I don't have a permanent fix, but one thing that works is folding up a small piece of paper and holding it over the memory card while closing the cover so that the cover pushes on the paper which holds the memory card in place automatically when the cover is closed. You just have to experiment to get the folded paper the right size and thickness. Again, its not a fix, but it has worked for me."
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"Viola! Fixed.
I removed the 8GB Sandisk Ultra II SD card from my Nikon D90 DSLR camera after an afternoons outdoor shooting, downloaded the photos to my PC and put the SD card back in the camera, which then displayed Err and e errors and the card wouldn't go all the way down in the SD slot of the camera, popped right up if pushed down. My first instinct was to freak out internally.
After a full day of silently agonising about which repair centre to take my D90 to, I noticed that the beveled corner of the SD card looked like it was crumbling or splintering apart like hard old plastic does when exposed to the sun. And a tiny sliver of plastic looked like it was missing off that edge (planned obsolescence?).
Back at the cameras' SD slot, I shone a really bright light into the SD slot and sure enough, behind the gold springs at the bottom of the card slot, was a tiny black sliver of plastic that moved slightly when I tipped the camera. About 3mm long. That tiny.
I removed the camera battery. Then I got a big long sewing needle, and with some very gentle manouvering, so as not to scratch anything inside the camera's SD slot, it fell out just when I was about to give up.
After I'd got the plastic sliver out, I trimmed the splintered edge of the SD card and put it back in, the camera gave a CHA error.
I tested my other SD cards. No camera errors and cards clipped in when pushed down.
So I cracked open the offending card so I could see what was inside it, then threw it in the refuse bin.
Camera and blood pressure back to normal. "