I might want to add to that the being pin-based, the mechanical coupling
of the card and the reader is rather fragile. Even minimal bent of one
of the pins in the reader, and you may have incomplete interface thereby
causing the card to malf.
On 11/17/2012 8:55 PM, Anthony Farr wrote:
A quick bit of research gives me two obvious sources for your problem.
There may be more but these should be easy to identify or eliminate.
The first is that the CF card could be a CFast card, designed for
extremely fast read/write speeds and needing a card reader cabable of
the specification. Second is the file system of the card. FAT32 file
system can only create or read a single file up to 4GB minus one byte
(now I know why my GoPro video files get split into multiple smaller
files for a single long shot) and if your friend shot video with his
Canon, or wanted to future-proof himself for the possibility then the
card or its filing system could be beyond FAT32 spec.
So, have you tried connecting the camera to your iMac with an
older/smaller CF card that is definitely FAT32? If it's a card
compatibility issue, then your friend would have already catered for
the problem, but you apparently haven't.
regards, Anthony
On 17 November 2012 17:20, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote:
The widow of my friend who passed away from cancer last year asked me to teach
her how to use his Canon 5DmkII. So, first of all, I need to figure it out.
When I was last at his place, we plugged his CF card into the reader on his
desktop computer, and uploaded his last files.
I just tried doing that on my iMac, with no luck. It wouldn't even recognize
the card in finder. I then found a USB cable, plugged it into the camera and
while OSX wouldn't recognize the camera, Lightroom did. So I was able to back
up his last photos (and the last photos of him) onto my computer.
The CF card in question is a 64GB card. Do I need a special reader for it?
Does anyone know the reason that the camera isn't showing up in the finder when
it is plugged in with the USB cable, even though lightroom can read the files?
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Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est
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