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R7 occasionally bricks

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gipper51 Veteran Member • Posts: 5,901
Re: R7 occasionally bricks

Are you using a USH-II memory card? If so I'd suggest trying a different memory card (even UHS-I speed) and see what happens. For me personally, I've had terrible luck with so far with UHS-II cards. 2 years ago I got the R5 and a Sony Tough UHS-II card, and the camera had frequent card errors that caused several lockups. I abandoned the Sony and went with a Sandisk UHS-1 Extreme Pro and issues went away.

The R5 was sold long ago, but fast forward to today and I had another bizarre issue with a Kinston UHS-II card on the R6II. I won't elaborate on the "weirdness" here (it never locked up, but had other problems), but the card was the cause and I exchanged it. I'm now using a Lexar 1800x UHS-II card and so far it seems OK.

I don't know if I've just been unlucky or there's still some teething problems with UHS-II cards and compatibility with Canon? I've had more media card issues with UHS-II in the last 2 years than in all the previous 20 years of shooting digital combined.

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