Canon 5D Miii; shot thousands of pics, suddenly 'card not recognised'. Tested multiple cards, yada yada (etc)...the slot was the prob. Blew hard into it once, as others below - and voila, problem fixed. Hallelujah for fantastic people posting solutions online! I travel to remote areas (on the job), and don't like relying on just one card; very glad the problem surfaced when in town, and I have online access to search for a solution. Thanks all.
I just had the same issue with my relatively new Canon 6D with a card that I have been using for several months. Nothing I tried worked to get the camera to "see" the card. I blew into the slot and voila! Works perfectly. Thanks - cheapest fix ever.
Thanks to a dpreview thread i was able to bug fix this issue. My 60D is years old and out of warranty. It's never had a problem and has shot tens of thousands of frames. This weekend it failed me with the No Card In Camera message. I could have cried. The clues of a previous poster sorted me out though! No bent pins, no mistreatment, no reason to believe a failure was imminent BUT the last time I used the camera was unusual! I had been shooting a lunar eclipse. It is VERY rare for me to use a tripod and have the camera set to Manual Focus, Stabiliser Off and 2 second Drive Mode (plus bracketing) with the camera in M full manual mode. In fact, I may have NEVER turned the camera off in this state ever before. I absolutely agree with a previous poster who noticed the Sensor Cleaning step was being skipped on startup and thought a software glitch was to blame! I simply changed the EF-S 18-200mm lens out for my 50mm 1.8 nifty fifty and everything was fixed. Putting the original lens back in caused no troubles. We're back baby! www.dpreview.com/forums/post/55675785
+nacayoda FYI: I eventually had complete failure of the SD circuit board and had to pay for a replacement. :( Full story on the dpreview link previously posted.
+Lepreas Apparently RUclips is keen to tell me every time I get a reply. My full story is documented on the dpreview link above and I guess you found it helpful :) Happy shooting.
sd card holder has micro switch it on the circuit power on the card holder after insert memory card. that Micro switch damage camera did not show card. that is the problem
I have a 60D Canon, It won't Turn On. I put fully charged battery and.. nothing. It didn't turn on at all and only blinkend low battery. I tried with a different battery, with lens, with no lens, with the SD card, without, and still nothing.
Insert a piece of paper that's folded a couple of times together with the memory card in the slot. The paper goes on the opposite side of the memory card contacts of course. This will push the cards contacts more firm on the cameras contacts.
I had this problem on my Canon T3i Rebel after I had some issues with Err 20 (luckily I fixed that). Formatting the cameras in the computer didnt work, and you can't format the card in the camera when the camera doesn't recognize it even has a card. I tried using the air rocket to blow air into the slot multiple times, this didn't accomplish the problem like it had for others. Instead what worked for me: With camera off, insert card... then turn camera on. It will show "no card". With the camera on, open up the SD Card slot, this automatically shuts off the camera temporarily, i then popped the card out and popped it back in, close the latch, and the camera turns back on. Each time i did this with the 3 SD cards it wouldn't find it worked. I would then take a picture to make sure its working. Then i went to review to make sure the card is writing the images. I then deleted the image. Then lastly went and formatted the card through the camera menu. This worked for each of my three cards - camera now recognizes them all right away when turning on. - I think the fact that you are turning it off because of the SD Card slot, the camera knows "something is happening to the SD slot, wait until you get one and then search for the new card once you come back on" --- it dedicates its resources to search for that new card instead of also starting up all other systems when it first turns on. (just a theory)
Great theory, but it sadly didn't work for me. (Camera worked perfectly until Saturday, when I offloaded all the photos. Sunday morning, "No Card in Camera," and still no card....)
I have just started having the same problem on my Canon EOS 550D camera. Have been using it for three years - no water, never been dropped, no sand or anything. Extremely gently used. Unfortunately I do not really know what I can do, since I do not have a box from camera anymore. Neither do I have a receipt, bought it in another country and al this stuff was left there when I moved.. :(
buenas tardes, soy técnico en cámaras nikon /canon y otras me llego este problema a mi taller precisamente el error de lectura (no se tiene acceso a la tarjeta cambie la trjeta o dele formato. compre por Internet la tarjeta lectora SD card pero sorpresa me dio el mismo error. noto que ya salio el nuevo firmware pero el problemas es como se lo instalo si no lee la memoria.. estoy investigando sobre el tema pero no encuentro muchas respuestas.. me anime a comprar la tarjeta por este mismo vídeo y los comentarios pero no se que creer ahora después de esto..no creo que la tarjeta que compre tenga el mismo error llego nueva en su empaque... auxilio
Yes, i had the same problem with my Canon 600D. I used a regular lens dust blower. The frist few 'squirts' of air didn't solve the problem. I tried a second time and it worked! Much cheaper than bringing to Canon as my warranty expired already. Thanks for the tip!
I've fixed this problem twice now as the cards themselves are prone to break and therefore the plastic bits will damage the sensor that tells the camera if the card is in write protect mode. the replacement board itself has cost me from $20-$40 and the replacement is quite simple, you just need to be extremely careful as it's easy to tear a ribbon cable in these things. This problem is wide spread and canon does not seem to want to address it with a simple firmware update that could just bypass the write protect mechanism (who uses that anyway?). Take it from someone who is far beyond the point of careful.... those cards will break apart eventually and your camera will be useless. You can spend a fortune sending it to canon, but you can do the job yourself for $40, a youtube instruction viewing and an hour of time. Better than that? use the smaller sized cards that you buy for your phones and keep an adapter in the camera so as not having to ever insert and eject the thing at all.
I used 2% alcohol. I wiped a SD card on connectors. Be sure to turn camera off. With the card moist I worked it in and out of camera several times. Before turning it on. i Blew air with can. All cards worked after letting it set for 30 or so seconds.
Turn camera so memory card slot is facing the ground, blow very hard up into the slot and give a solid shake while you do it. A few taps on the upside of it would help as well ^^
Canon 5D Miii; shot thousands of pics, suddenly 'card not recognised'. Tested multiple cards, yada yada (etc)...the slot was the prob. Blew hard into it once, as others below - and voila, problem fixed. Hallelujah for fantastic people posting solutions online! I travel to remote areas (on the job), and don't like relying on just one card; very glad the problem surfaced when in town, and I have online access to search for a solution. Thanks all.
I just had the same issue with my relatively new Canon 6D with a card that I have been using for several months. Nothing I tried worked to get the camera to "see" the card. I blew into the slot and voila! Works perfectly. Thanks - cheapest fix ever.
+Dale Handlin You sir, are a savior! Thanks for the cheapest solution!
Thank you so much!!! Worked!!!
THIS IS WORK LIKE MAGIC
Thanks to a dpreview thread i was able to bug fix this issue.
My 60D is years old and out of warranty. It's never had a problem and has shot tens of thousands of frames.
This weekend it failed me with the No Card In Camera message. I could have cried.
The clues of a previous poster sorted me out though!
No bent pins, no mistreatment, no reason to believe a failure was imminent BUT the last time I used the camera was unusual! I had been shooting a lunar eclipse. It is VERY rare for me to use a tripod and have the camera set to Manual Focus, Stabiliser Off and 2 second Drive Mode (plus bracketing) with the camera in M full manual mode. In fact, I may have NEVER turned the camera off in this state ever before.
I absolutely agree with a previous poster who noticed the Sensor Cleaning step was being skipped on startup and thought a software glitch was to blame!
I simply changed the EF-S 18-200mm lens out for my 50mm 1.8 nifty fifty and everything was fixed.
Putting the original lens back in caused no troubles. We're back baby!
www.dpreview.com/forums/post/55675785
+nacayoda FYI: I eventually had complete failure of the SD circuit board and had to pay for a replacement. :( Full story on the dpreview link previously posted.
+nacayoda I appreciate your input very much! Thank you for sharing. I hope the damage (to your wallet) wasn't to bad.
+nacayoda You've just saved my life. I dunno if you'll ever read this but THIS BUT THANK YOUUUUUUU
+Lepreas Apparently RUclips is keen to tell me every time I get a reply. My full story is documented on the dpreview link above and I guess you found it helpful :) Happy shooting.
Thank you for starting this discussion!!!
sd card holder has micro switch it on the circuit power on the card holder after insert memory card. that Micro switch damage camera did not show card. that is the problem
I have a 60D Canon, It won't Turn On. I put fully charged battery and.. nothing. It didn't turn on at all and only blinkend low battery. I tried with a different battery, with lens, with no lens, with the SD card, without, and still nothing.
Insert a piece of paper that's folded a couple of times together with the memory card in the slot. The paper goes on the opposite side of the memory card contacts of course. This will push the cards contacts more firm on the cameras contacts.
+Andrew Morrissey :-)
ha ha you saved me....worked with piece of paper!! 😂☺
+Cronki ypa good to hear
Thanks :-)
This did absolutely nothing for me. Still have the error.
I understand the problem he had. No matter which card, I put in I got that error, and blowing air in the card slot did not work.
I had this problem on my Canon T3i Rebel after I had some issues with Err 20 (luckily I fixed that). Formatting the cameras in the computer didnt work, and you can't format the card in the camera when the camera doesn't recognize it even has a card. I tried using the air rocket to blow air into the slot multiple times, this didn't accomplish the problem like it had for others.
Instead what worked for me: With camera off, insert card... then turn camera on. It will show "no card". With the camera on, open up the SD Card slot, this automatically shuts off the camera temporarily, i then popped the card out and popped it back in, close the latch, and the camera turns back on. Each time i did this with the 3 SD cards it wouldn't find it worked. I would then take a picture to make sure its working. Then i went to review to make sure the card is writing the images. I then deleted the image. Then lastly went and formatted the card through the camera menu.
This worked for each of my three cards - camera now recognizes them all right away when turning on. - I think the fact that you are turning it off because of the SD Card slot, the camera knows "something is happening to the SD slot, wait until you get one and then search for the new card once you come back on" --- it dedicates its resources to search for that new card instead of also starting up all other systems when it first turns on. (just a theory)
+Kyle Bigart I have the rebel t3 and tried this and did not work. is there any other options
Great theory, but it sadly didn't work for me. (Camera worked perfectly until Saturday, when I offloaded all the photos. Sunday morning, "No Card in Camera," and still no card....)
I have just started having the same problem on my Canon EOS 550D camera. Have been using it for three years - no water, never been dropped, no sand or anything. Extremely gently used. Unfortunately I do not really know what I can do, since I do not have a box from camera anymore. Neither do I have a receipt, bought it in another country and al this stuff was left there when I moved.. :(
buenas tardes, soy técnico en cámaras nikon /canon y otras me llego este problema a mi taller precisamente el error de lectura (no se tiene acceso a la tarjeta cambie la trjeta o dele formato. compre por Internet la tarjeta lectora SD card pero sorpresa me dio el mismo error. noto que ya salio el nuevo firmware pero el problemas es como se lo instalo si no lee la memoria..
estoy investigando sobre el tema pero no encuentro muchas respuestas..
me anime a comprar la tarjeta por este mismo vídeo y los comentarios pero no se que creer ahora después de esto..no creo que la tarjeta que compre tenga el mismo error llego nueva en su empaque... auxilio
RICARDO MIGUEL SERRANO ALMANZA estoy igual Nose que hacer que haz solucionado??
IGUALL SE ME DAÑO DE LA NOCHE A LA MAÑANA . no reconoce ninguna tarjeta y me daño la que tenia
LA VOY A MANDAR A REPARAR DE LOS PINES SE DAÑARON POR FORZAR LA TARJETA
Yes, i had the same problem with my Canon 600D. I used a regular lens dust blower. The frist few 'squirts' of air didn't solve the problem. I tried a second time and it worked! Much cheaper than bringing to Canon as my warranty expired already. Thanks for the tip!
Had the same problem, all I did was blow really hard into the slot and it worked!
Tahlia Narayan hahaha thank you! it worked for me too! :D
Tahlia Narayan thanks :D work for me too
Tahlia Narayan WORKED FOR ME TOOOO! CHECK THIS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+Tahlia Narayan A+ That just worked for me too. What a simple solution lol
It worked for me too ! THANK YOUUU
I've fixed this problem twice now as the cards themselves are prone to break and therefore the plastic bits will damage the sensor that tells the camera if the card is in write protect mode. the replacement board itself has cost me from $20-$40 and the replacement is quite simple, you just need to be extremely careful as it's easy to tear a ribbon cable in these things. This problem is wide spread and canon does not seem to want to address it with a simple firmware update that could just bypass the write protect mechanism (who uses that anyway?). Take it from someone who is far beyond the point of careful.... those cards will break apart eventually and your camera will be useless. You can spend a fortune sending it to canon, but you can do the job yourself for $40, a youtube instruction viewing and an hour of time. Better than that? use the smaller sized cards that you buy for your phones and keep an adapter in the camera so as not having to ever insert and eject the thing at all.
I used 2% alcohol. I wiped a SD card on connectors. Be sure to turn camera off. With the card moist I worked it in and out of camera several times. Before turning it on. i Blew air with can. All cards worked after letting it set for 30 or so seconds.
I blew like twice and slotted back the card! Bingo!! It worked !!! Thanks
So works!!!! Thanks:)t
Had problem with my 600d and blew in the card slot couple of times and it worked thanx
I just came to this video because I just had this problem tonight with my new 6D and blowing into the slot did the trick, thanks alot
had the same problem with canon 6D, blowing into the card slot worked right away... thank you! :)
Compressed air blown in worked! AMAZING. THANK YOU.
Turn camera so memory card slot is facing the ground, blow very hard up into the slot and give a solid shake while you do it. A few taps on the upside of it would help as well ^^
Dude ......blowing air in the card slot worked....thanks raludens1..:)
I didn't face kind of this problem !!!! I used sd 32-10class
awesome, glad that worked for you.
The problem was not with the cards as stated by Canon it was a problem with the circuit board in the camera failing which caused the error.
LeRoy Candelaria hi so it worked, as i talk to you am experiencing the same with a 60D.
And yesterday as i tried more and more it worked but i tjought of tasting another card...hehehe my bad is it has not detected the card again...
Holy shit it worked for me as well i wes getting ready to toss my camera it is 8 years old and i have a 6D now. It worked tho.......
Waste of time making this video
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