LostPatrol opened this issue on Jun 01, 2005 ยท 6 posts
LostPatrol posted Wed, 01 June 2005 at 5:20 PM
Attached Link: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0505/05052001canonlexaralert.asp
This topic came up in a conversation on Jimrys 9 frames per second thread.Thought it may be worth posting here.
Some cameras have issues with some Lexar Compact flash cards.
Quote feom link "Disappearance of images when using Lexar Compact Flash Cards Affected Products (D-SLR): EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS 20D, EOS Digital Rebel XT / EOS 350D Digital / EOS Kiss Digital N Affected Products (CF card): Lexar Professional 80x-speed Compact Flash cards"
Message edited on: 06/01/2005 17:24
DJB posted Wed, 01 June 2005 at 8:17 PM
That would be a royal pain to pay that much for a camera and CF then have this happen. I would want to get my money back and wait out a new release.
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jimry posted Thu, 02 June 2005 at 2:38 AM
Still find this strange Simon...have had no problems at all...I also understand its when you shoot in RAW+JPEG (high image quality)" mode...seems the buffer cannot keep up.
gwfa posted Thu, 02 June 2005 at 8:32 AM
it's better to get an official statement from your camera maker which CF cards are accepted by which modell - a real story alone for Fujifilm models, so I guess the others are not better due to the fairly open CF specifications; I have no final opinion yet but I'm using exclusively Microdrives (1 , 2, and 4 GB) exclusively from IBM or Hitachi (for the same reason as for CF, Magicstor is again a different story)...
LostPatrol posted Thu, 02 June 2005 at 9:18 AM
Jim Canon has stated that this may occur under a certain set of circumstances, and only isolated cases. It is more of a case that this CAN happen rather than this WIll happen. My friend that also has a D1 Mk 2 uses the x80 cards he shoots commercially (1000s of images a week) RAW + Large JPG and he has not had any problems either. Some of the issues are not all with Canon cameras and it can happen with any brand of camera. I have only seen this issue in relation to Lexar x80 cards. As with all technology there are no absolutes. Slightly different situation, but I had a MSI mobo and MSI graphics card that would not work together.
DeviousMoose posted Tue, 07 June 2005 at 6:56 PM
I think that Lost Patrol put it best. "It CAN happen rather than WILL happen." Everyone I work with has not seen anyone with this problem at all & we sell the Canons and the Lexars. These are very rare & isolated occurences (across the country) and not widespread. Also- there is an element of Human Error here- many people cant seem to wait for the larger images or series of images to load before trying to do something else. That is when problems occur. Remember- the "processor" in a camera can only do so much so fast.