BackdoorArts
Senior Member
Going to make this short and sweet. I got my replacement D500 from B&H yesterday. Put in a battery, slapped on the 300mm f4 PF, set all my menu settings (including making sure my image review and menu screen timeouts were all 10 seconds), and went out shooting birds off the deck. About 100 frames in I shot some of a private jet that buzzed overhead closer than one would have expected. I pixel peeped, smiled at the sharpness, and set the camera on the table next to me to talk to my wife about something. Two minutes later I look over and the back display is still on.
Again!!
WTF?! So I start pondering what I could be doing that causes the issue, because no one else on the planet has reported it anywhere I've looked, and it's happened to me out of the box not once but twice. The one constant in both cases is a particular SanDisk Extreme Pro 32GB 95MB/s SD card that I put in the first D500 as soon as I got it and kept it in there after getting a Sony XQD card a week later. So, I decide to remove that card and replace it with the same type of card that I have in my D750. I swap cards, reformat both and continue shooting. No issues.
That is until this morning when I go out to shoot a dragon fly on a plant on the deck. Immediately after chimping the screen stays. No lock, just on until I give any other non-review related button a press. Again, same exact card type, probably from the same 2-pk.
So, it's time to play Sherlock Holmes again. I'm no longer of the mind that this is a camera issue, at least directly. I know the D500 had issues with other memory cards that caused it to lock up completely, and at least I'm not experiencing that. But perhaps this is a different issue with this particular card?
The card is now completely removed from the body and I'll be shooting with the XQD card only (Sony G series 64GB 400MB/s) and we'll see if it behaves properly.
My question to you all is are any of you using the same SD card as I am? Are any of you using the same type but a different size (16GB, etc.)? I've got other SD cards I can play with, and I'll start using others when I decide that I don't get the problem with the XQD card alone.
Again!!
WTF?! So I start pondering what I could be doing that causes the issue, because no one else on the planet has reported it anywhere I've looked, and it's happened to me out of the box not once but twice. The one constant in both cases is a particular SanDisk Extreme Pro 32GB 95MB/s SD card that I put in the first D500 as soon as I got it and kept it in there after getting a Sony XQD card a week later. So, I decide to remove that card and replace it with the same type of card that I have in my D750. I swap cards, reformat both and continue shooting. No issues.
That is until this morning when I go out to shoot a dragon fly on a plant on the deck. Immediately after chimping the screen stays. No lock, just on until I give any other non-review related button a press. Again, same exact card type, probably from the same 2-pk.
So, it's time to play Sherlock Holmes again. I'm no longer of the mind that this is a camera issue, at least directly. I know the D500 had issues with other memory cards that caused it to lock up completely, and at least I'm not experiencing that. But perhaps this is a different issue with this particular card?
The card is now completely removed from the body and I'll be shooting with the XQD card only (Sony G series 64GB 400MB/s) and we'll see if it behaves properly.
My question to you all is are any of you using the same SD card as I am? Are any of you using the same type but a different size (16GB, etc.)? I've got other SD cards I can play with, and I'll start using others when I decide that I don't get the problem with the XQD card alone.