Not sure whether any of you D700 users have seen issue. Today I got my new Sandisk 16GB UDMA Card (Extreame CF 60MB/s UDMA) and used it on D700. The "frames remaining" showed my previous card's (Sandisk 12GB Extreame 3) remaing frame counts (some where around 400+ frames left in that card). The camera was firing fine without any issue. Then I just formatted 16GB card - still D700 showed the same number previous number which was there just before formatting. Again I fired a few frames and then formatted again. Now the frame count decreased (number of remaining frames). I then thought this new UDMA card might not have been supported and then tried by 12GB card and formatted it. The problem now persisted with 12GB card too ! I fire few frames, format it, number of remaining frames was not getting reset to max capacity of the card. Now the frame count was at around 300+. I then decided to fire away all the remaining frames - fired shutter to bring it to 0. Guess what ? Even after formatting card now my D700 shows "Full". Reformatting does not help - I tried 16GB/12GB/2GB/4GB cards.
**As of now my D700 is dead showing "Full" on any formatted empty CF cards**.
I googled around to find whether this issue is reported, but I could not find one. Please let me know if any of you have a solution to this issue.
I tried removing both batteries (I use MB-D10 with my D700 too) and upgrading firmware to the new version. It does not help. Looks like I need to take my D700 to support center now :(
BTW, I don't see this issue with my D300 ! 16GB UDMA card seem to work just fine without "loosing" remaining frame counts..
Thanks in advance for any solution to resolve this issue...
- Ganesh H. Shankar
Posted by Larry Fischer on October 27, 2009 at 12:39 PM
I use a D300 and D700. I have not had problems. I'm using a Sandisk Extreme III, 8 mb.
May be a camera issue. It is a machine. Things can go wrong.
the fisch
Larry, just guessing whether my new 60MB/s UDMA card (16GB Sandisk) has triggered this bug. I have been using my D700 for several months now without any issue with Sandisk Extreme III 12GB Cards..
Good News - Based on a suggestion from another forum I tried creating a new folder and formatting. It worked !! If any of you see this issue here is a workaround -
1. Go to "Shooting Menu" ("MENU" button and then select "Shooting menu" )
2. Select "Active Folder" menu option.
3. Select "New Folder Number"
4. Just bump up the counter
5. Press OK.
6. Go to "Setup Menu"
7. Format the card !!
Hope Nikon will fix this issue in their next firmware release. I am unable to reproduce the problem now with the new 16GB card too. May be it happens sometimes..
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3 replies**As of now my D700 is dead showing "Full" on any formatted empty CF cards**.
I googled around to find whether this issue is reported, but I could not find one. Please let me know if any of you have a solution to this issue.
I tried removing both batteries (I use MB-D10 with my D700 too) and upgrading firmware to the new version. It does not help. Looks like I need to take my D700 to support center now :(
BTW, I don't see this issue with my D300 ! 16GB UDMA card seem to work just fine without "loosing" remaining frame counts..
Thanks in advance for any solution to resolve this issue...
- Ganesh H. Shankar
May be a camera issue. It is a machine. Things can go wrong.
the fisch
1. Go to "Shooting Menu" ("MENU" button and then select "Shooting menu" )
2. Select "Active Folder" menu option.
3. Select "New Folder Number"
4. Just bump up the counter
5. Press OK.
6. Go to "Setup Menu"
7. Format the card !!
Hope Nikon will fix this issue in their next firmware release. I am unable to reproduce the problem now with the new 16GB card too. May be it happens sometimes..