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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: grilla on June 18, 2010, 11:35:45 pm

Title: Err CF On a Canon 5D Mark II
Post by: grilla on June 18, 2010, 11:35:45 pm

Today I rented a 5D Mark II and was excited to use it this weekend. It came with a 16gb and a 8gb card. On either card I am getting the Err CF message. I know it has something to do with the CF card, but I cant get it to work. I would really like to find out tonite what I am doing wrong if anything so that I can start shooting very early tomorrow morning. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Title: Err CF On a Canon 5D Mark II
Post by: Paul Sumi on June 19, 2010, 12:41:24 am

Have you tried formatting them in-camera?

Title: Err CF On a Canon 5D Mark II
Post by: Paul Sumi on June 19, 2010, 02:20:48 pm

Can the cards be accessed through an external card reader?

Have you tried any other CF cards to see if they work?

Trying to find out if it's the camera or the cards.

Paul

Title: Err CF On a Canon 5D Mark II
Post by: Snook on June 19, 2010, 03:57:53 pm

Try formatting them with disk utility on mac if you can...
Has worked for me in the past...
Snook

Title: Err CF On a Canon 5D Mark II
Post by: schrodingerscat on June 20, 2010, 02:35:35 pm

Quote from: grilla

Today I rented a 5D Mark II and was excited to use it this weekend. It came with a 16gb and a 8gb card. On either card I am getting the Err CF message. I know it has something to do with the CF card, but I cant get it to work. I would really like to find out tonite what I am doing wrong if anything so that I can start shooting very early tomorrow morning. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Also check the pins for the card reader. Damaged pins can also create CF error messages. And if formatting with a computer(FAT), don't forget to reformat with the camera.