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Just bought a couple of Nikon D70S cameras for two of my grandsons, set them to take jpeg images for their ease of use.
Took one of them up to Slimbridge this morning and after he had taken a couple of shots he couldn't press the shutter and the error [FOR] came up, indicating the card (an 8GB Duracell that I have used frequently in old D3S etc) needed to be formatted.
Apologised to him that he would lose his couple of images and re-formatted the card ... few images later and the same issue ... another apology and gave him the CF card from my D800 (Sandisk Extreme Pro 16GB), formatted it and away he went.
Couple of hours later as he's checking images he had taken it comes up 'File has no images' (or similar), so I switch off, remove the card and pop it back in again and all images are there and all's well ... until a few shots later the error [FOR] stops him taking anymore images.
Remove and replace the card and all is well again until we leave.
On getting home and browsing the card on my laptop prior to transferring his images onto a DVD, in addition to 70 odd jpeg files I see a few 'folders' on the card with image numbers and one 'folder' marked 0.0.0.0. In the course of the transfer to the DVD a small number of the images (jpeg) are reported as being corrupted and will not transfer so I click on 'Skip'.
I contacted the supplier, (excellent, used before, willing to replace and refund all postage if necessary), but on asking what cards I had used said that Nikon have never recommended greater than 4GB for the D70 Series ... when I check the Nikon website, sure enough recommended cards are Sandisk and Lexar, max 4GB "other manufacturers and capacities may work".
So wrong capacity card sounds a perfectly reasonable reason for the problem ... does it sound reasonable to you?
Only other grandson has been taking images on his own in his back garden with identical Duracell 8GB card without any issues.
Can it be this random?
Took one of them up to Slimbridge this morning and after he had taken a couple of shots he couldn't press the shutter and the error [FOR] came up, indicating the card (an 8GB Duracell that I have used frequently in old D3S etc) needed to be formatted.
Apologised to him that he would lose his couple of images and re-formatted the card ... few images later and the same issue ... another apology and gave him the CF card from my D800 (Sandisk Extreme Pro 16GB), formatted it and away he went.
Couple of hours later as he's checking images he had taken it comes up 'File has no images' (or similar), so I switch off, remove the card and pop it back in again and all images are there and all's well ... until a few shots later the error [FOR] stops him taking anymore images.
Remove and replace the card and all is well again until we leave.
On getting home and browsing the card on my laptop prior to transferring his images onto a DVD, in addition to 70 odd jpeg files I see a few 'folders' on the card with image numbers and one 'folder' marked 0.0.0.0. In the course of the transfer to the DVD a small number of the images (jpeg) are reported as being corrupted and will not transfer so I click on 'Skip'.
I contacted the supplier, (excellent, used before, willing to replace and refund all postage if necessary), but on asking what cards I had used said that Nikon have never recommended greater than 4GB for the D70 Series ... when I check the Nikon website, sure enough recommended cards are Sandisk and Lexar, max 4GB "other manufacturers and capacities may work".
So wrong capacity card sounds a perfectly reasonable reason for the problem ... does it sound reasonable to you?
Only other grandson has been taking images on his own in his back garden with identical Duracell 8GB card without any issues.
Can it be this random?
