BIG D60 Error tonight !!

[paul alford]

I have had my D60 for a few weeks now and had a MAJOR problem tonight. Fortunatley it was a church service so nobody will KILL me but what if, God forbid, this was a wedding !!

I first noticed last week one of the images did not come up on the LCD... it said Lost data with a big "?" mark sign in the LCD. Also said some error number in the screen. I turned the camera off then on again and it worked fine for more images. Altough it never gave me another "?" mark in the LCD, when I returned from the assignement a second image would not view correctly in BreezeBrowser or any other viewer. I didnt think too much about it.....

TONIGHT, I took the D60 to church and was snapping away, available light, 800 ASA, and the camera went dead... it was flashing another error message. I again turned the camera off then back on and snapped 1 more, it went dead again... flashing error again. I turned it back off, then on a 3rd time.... 1 shot and dead again. When I turned it off then on again this time, I pressed "play" and the lcd said NO IMAGES !! I had already snapped about 30-40 images on the 320 Mb card in it. I put it down and when I got home, launched BreezeBrowser - the card has the file sctructure there, but I clicked on the first folder and NO FILES !!!

I tried (for the first time) DATARescue program and it found the missing images but they are all messed up. Only half images... I have attached 2.


I am ready to package this thing up and send it back to Canon for my money back !! I also have a D30 and it has never given me this much grief !!! I am a professional studio owner and am now relying on these digital cameras to produce....and I have to say I am not happy at all with Canon. I own all Canon equipment and am very frustrated with this D60. I thought it was going to be at least as good as the D30.... it doesnt appear it is.

Paul

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[lazoj]

paul alford wrote:

I am ready to package this thing up and send it back to Canon for my money back !! I also have a D30 and it has never given me this much grief !!! I am a professional studio owner and am now relying on these digital cameras to produce....and I have to say I am not happy at all with Canon. I own all Canon equipment and am very frustrated with this D60. I thought it was going to be at least as good as the D30.... it doesnt appear it is.




how old is your unit? Have you sent in the registration info yet? If yes, you most likely will not get you money back, they will repair or replace your camera. Sounds like you got a bad camera...

[Cal Maier]

"I had already snapped about 30-40 images on the 320 Mb card in it"


Paul,

Have you tried the camera with another memory card? It's possible for the 320 mb micro-drive to have problems. I've seen these drives crash once in a while. I've also run into a couple of CF cards that have experienced similar errors. I would definitely try the camera with a different memory card before sending it back to Canon.

Good luck!

Cal

[mrchips]

I don't think its the camera, it looks like a defective CF card to me.

Denny

[Rafael]

I'd also try a different CF card...