I have been having intermittent trouble over the past few months reading image files from my 4-5 year old Canon EOS 350D.
After quite a bit of testing I've shown I can replicate the problem on two different CF cards -- one that's 4 years old (SanDisk 256MB) and and one that's 4 months (SanDisk Extreme III 4GB) old. Sometimes my Mac can read the images, sometimes it chokes. So far I've only lost one image.
I've tried a couple of different techniques to read the images, so I think the problem is either my camera or my media.
I'm willing to buy one more CF card to see if it's the media. One CF is old, perhaps the newer one simply has a reliability problem.
My question is, has anyone ever heard of this problem coming from the camera rather than the media? I use this camera often, but i'm probably under 60,000 images total.
I find it hard to believe it's the camera, but I thought I'd check.