wahhhhhhhhhhh please help my new but not new Eos 350d is

i aquired a second hand but emaculate 350d it has been working fine got it with a 32 meg canon compact flash card that worked ok then,, tonight out on a bowling trip with my soon ( tomo)13 yrs old party and took a good few pics
then the card was full so took it out to exhange it with another duplicate card and it came up error so we thought oooops maybe not in right etc but the long and the short of it is whatever i do to the cards/cam the cards just keep coming up cf error if i format in the cam it comes up error 99 then if i take bat/ and card out leave it stand with bat out then try again just didnt change the cf error is the cam knackered?i have tried formating the card in the pc still no joy what if anything can i do? PLEASE HELP iam so desp upset

Buy a new CF card and try that. 32MB isn't much space anyway. You'd be better off getting a new 2GB SanDisk Ultra II or faster.

cdifoto wrote in post #4246489
Buy a new CF card and try that. 32MB isn't much space anyway. You'd be better off getting a new 2GB SanDisk Ultra II or faster.

i plan to have one on route do you think the card or the cam is at fault?

Probably the card but I can't really comprehend what your original post said you tried doing.

Have you tried formatting the card in-camera? Is the "duplicate card" also a 32MB? If so, chances are they're both old (and faulty) cards...that's a TINY card by today's standards. I don't think they're made that small anymore.

First off, punctuation is your friend!

Sorry if I missed it in your original post but are you trying this all with same card or have you tested multiple cards?

So, you've swapped cards, reformatted the card in both the camera and the PC, removed the battery, and still have the ERR 99 issue. Have you tried the folllowing:

1. Removing all the batteries (including the date time battery- the small button cell)
2. Removing and re-seating the lens.
3. Cleaning the contacts in the camera and on the lens

Here's an article that might assist you.

http://www.richardsnot​es.org …50mm-lens-contact-points/

Mark

cdifoto wrote in post #4246507
Probably the card but I can't really comprehend what your original post said you tried doing.

Have you tried formatting the card in-camera? Is the "duplicate card" also a 32MB? If so, chances are they're both old (and faulty) cards...that's a TINY card by today's standards. I don't think they're made that small anymore.

sorry its been a longggggggggggggg day yes tried formatting them in the cam and when i do then the next error is error 99 then if i switch off then switch on again it comes up with cf error i know the cards are old but they made do till i got the one thats on route

I would do as mark suggested and if that doesn't work, sit tight until the new card shows up then go from there.

When you originally replaced the card, you didn't accidentally bend a pin in the camera, did you?

Seems to me that your problems started when you swapped another card in.

::John:: wrote in post #4246558
When you originally replaced the card, you didn't accidentally bend a pin in the camera, did you?


Seems to me that your problems started when you swapped another card in.

no i have tried and better tried by putting the one with the nights pics on the pc ( i took off the pics and marked it 1 ) then tried that one back in then swapped it with the totha

Mark_Cohran wrote in post #4246513
So, you've swapped cards, reformatted the card in both the camera and the PC, removed the battery, and still have the ERR 99 issue. Have you tried the folllowing:

1. Removing all the batteries (including the date time battery- the small button cell)
2. Removing and re-seating the lens.
3. Cleaning the contacts in the camera and on the lens

Here's an article that might assist you.

http://www.richardsnot​es.org …50mm-lens-contact-points/

Mark

Yes when i came home i looked around and found that list in other places basically and i have tried all that

So, going back to my original question but with a bit more explanation...

Inside your camera there are a heap of pins (2 rows of them) that connect to the holes in the end of the card you are slotting into the camera.

Open up the card slot - grab a torch or other bright light.

Look into that slot at the pins.

You didn't accidentally bend a pin in the camera, did you?

alkady wrote in post #4246483
i aquired a second hand but emaculate 350d it has been working fine got it with a 32 meg canon compact flash card that worked ok then,, tonight out on a bowling trip with my soon ( tomo)13 yrs old party and took a good few pics
then the card was full so took it out to exhange it with another duplicate card and it came up error so we thought oooops maybe not in right etc but the long and the short of it is whatever i do to the cards/cam the cards just keep coming up cf error if i format in the cam it comes up error 99 then if i take bat/ and card out leave it stand with bat out then try again just didnt change the cf error is the cam knackered?i have tried formating the card in the pc still no joy what if anything can i do? PLEASE HELP iam so desp upset

I don't know about the 350D, but if I am not mistaken, the XTi/400D requires a minimum of 2GB (don't believe me because I might be all wrong -- check your owners manual). At any rate, a 32 MB card just plain isn't good enough unless you are going to be satisfied with about six pictures before it is full. Next, you should ERASE and then FORMAT the new card before trying to take pictures with it installed.

bill boehme wrote in post #4248195
I don't know about the 350D, but if I am not mistaken, the XTi/400D requires a minimum of 2GB (don't believe me because I might be all wrong -

A 256mb card that came with my old Canon S50 DID in fact work in my XTi.

There is no minimum size requirement as long as there is sufficient space to contain at least one image in the resolution your camera is set for.