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hi guys any help or advice would be much needed i was out yesterday with my canon d300 I changed compact flash cards as the one I was using was full. when i inserted the other I caught one the pins inside the camera where the cf card inserts. obviously the camera isnt working now and i have an “error 02” fault code on my screen. i rang canon ireland and they are to get back to me with an estimate for repair but i know it is going to be expensive. I am thinkin about opening the camera and trying to straighten the pin or would this be foolhardy. any advice would be much apprieciated. I can see the bent pin but cant quiet get at it the girl i spoke to in canon Ireland informed me that this is a common enough problem. :cry:
Why don’t you take it to Conns on Clarendon St. (or any other good store) . if its as easy as it looks to you they might be able to fix it quickly ( maybe even free) .. if not then you know not to try it yourself . :?
I’d poop my pants at the thoughts of trying to do it :oops:
Good luck
Sorry to hear about your woes. I would imagine it is something that could happen easily enough, particularly if there is a bit of play with the card. There is no easy fix. With the right type of tool you could probably get in there and straighten it and it’s worth trying. With my background in electronics I just might have something at home that could do the job – I’ll have to take a look though. But the trouble is that if and when you do manage to straighten it you’ll never quite get it as straight as it needs to be, plus the pin will have been weakend. This means that you will need to be extremely careful in future when inserting CF cards so as not to bend the pin again.
Alternatively, give Fixation in the UK a call and see what they say. They are an authorised Canon repair centre and will probably do the repair quicker than Canon!
A third option would be to abandon your 300D and get a 400D, although it’s probably not available yet.
It’s the one weakness in what is otherwise a very robust technology. My advice would be to use higher capacity cards and thereby reduce the number of times you need to change them. I use a mix of 4GB and 2GB cards as the technology has improved a lot in the past two years or so and the risk of data loss is now much less than it was then. I also make sure to change the cards when there is a break in the action, even if there is enough space on the cards for another 10 shots. I often did the same in my film days, changing the film while I had the chance to do so, even if it wasn’t 100% used. Better to have a few blank frames than miss a good shot because you were changing the film or card!
If you do straighten the pin yourself it might be weakened and therefore might snap sometime in the future. Lorraine’s advice is very good (Conns are very professional) but I see your location is Limerick. If you are in Limerick there is a camera shop there called Whelans or Phelans I think. It might be worth having a chat with them.
thanks guys i called into whelens earlier and they advised me to deal with canon myself as i did not buy my camera off them they were not that interested in my tail of woe hard to blame them really. i am going to attempt to straighten it myself and take thorstans advice and buy a big cf card and just hope for the best if i get it in i can transfer my pics via usb to my laptop so in theory it would not need to come out ever ever again.thanks very much for the good advice. of all weeks for this to happen i just started a weeks holidays which I had intended snaping my days away ah well i will have to dig out my old trusthy olympus E-10….
Unless you have a very intricate tool made specially for this purpose i would not try it,i once had a student whom did exactly the same thing,went and poked at it to straigten it but actually bent more in the process. Also be careful as if your instrument has even a static charge it can damage the circuitry.(Dont quote me on this as i heard it on another site) Best leave it to the professionals..Good luck with that!
Ben 8)Take the batteries out first and try to get it right on go no. 1 as wiggling it back and forth WILL snap it.
I’ve had to do it on computer CPUs before and used a pair of eyebrow tweezers. Some CPUs cost even more than your camera (though the 2nd hand value isn’t so good).
Do discharge static first, and don’t do it when you’re wearing a big fleece or something.
happy man here went out maplins and bought a set of electronic probes a really fine tweezers and a static strap. i didnt open the camera and I went at it from the top as soon as I went at it it was almost as if it wanted to go back to it old position there was only one bent pin and the whole thing only took about five minutes. i carefully put the biggest card I have in (a one gig) but will buy a bigger one asap and put that in from now on I will do my transfers through usb. thanks very much everyone for all the advice especially petethebloke with regards the static issue I would never have remembered that.
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