CF Card issue

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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?
 
I have a D70, converted to IR and it displays a very similar issue using 4GB and 8GB Sandisk cards (the same cards are faultless in my D300/700). I get the [FOR] error which is normally resolved by formatting the card or sometimes just switching on and off resolves the problem. Has not really been a problem as I only take a few images at a time with it. I assumed it was just a quirk of an old and maybe not very reliable camera. I also have a D70s in work and it has always been flawless for 1000s of images with the same 1GB Sandisk card bough when the camera was new. So given your experience maybe it is just that D70(s) don't like new large capacity cards.
 
Reading around it seems some have problems with higher cards,other don't is the firmware update :)
 
simonblue said:
Reading around it seems some have problems with higher cards,other don't is the firmware update :)
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According to the Nikon website there have been firmware update(s) for the D70 but none at all for the D70S.
 
I have a feeling that the firmware update for the D70 was just to 'upgrade' it to D70S spec ... as has been the case with a few other Nikon bodies.
 
gramps said:
I have a feeling that the firmware update for the D70 was just to 'upgrade' it to D70S spec ... as has been the case with a few other Nikon bodies.
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Basically, yes. The only thing it didn't do was expand the review screen!

Never had the issue described with 1 and 2 GB SanDisk cards in my D70 (with updated firmware).
 
Have a couple of D70 cameras one is Infrared converted and running the orional software.
The second is as sold but with D70s firmware update.
Now my I.R. Camera happily works with 4 gig cards.
But camera with D70s firmware update is more choosey on the cards I can use.
I have Duracell 8gigs and it don't like them :-(
1g,2,g and some 4gig are fine sometimes I get the odd err code
Eject card reinsert and all is fine !
??? The joys of digital photography.
If you can find cards that suite the camera I leave them in that body and even write on the card label what camera they are for.
 
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