I will soon place a video on my YouTube channel proofing that the D5100 has indeed big problems with SD cards. The card works in my laptop, Olympus, Sony but does not get recognized inside the D5100.Įven last problem was that I did a video shoot with the D5100 and from 7 mov files 4 disappeared and were only being recovered by un-delete software. I came to the conclusion after talking several times with Nikon support that Nikon is aware of the problem with SD cards.Įven one time the writing protect switch on the SD card has been broken so I repaired it with tape, saw how to do it on YouTube. That time all files were lost in total and the SD card was broken and got a new one from the shop, as warranty.īecause of users also making a complain on various social media about the Nikon and the SD problems I tried the Intenso which was according the testing read and write software faster than the Sandisk. The problem started right after I opened the D5100 as the Sandisk was not recognized several time, only inserting the SD card several times again and again would make it work. My dad was asking me what camera he should buy last week, I told him anything but this one! I did get my picts back, but only after paying ADR Data Recovery $610.00 to repair the card (539.00 for the repair and 99.00 for a new drive to put the picts on). Even though this is a new camera I am considering buying a new one because I am scared to use the camera again now. I have always loved Nikon, in fact my old dog, who I had 14 years, was a named “Nikon”, but I am extremely unhappy with them right now. In fact I have a drawer of full SD cards going back a decade, and this is the first time one has gone bad. I have had dozens of cameras over my lifetime, all types and manufactures and have never had an SD card go bad before. My Ipad couldn’t see the card, the camera didn’t see it, nor did my PC. I downloaded maybe a dozen apps that all said they fixed SD cards, none worked. After deleting maybe 8 picts I got the hourglass and a light on the camera back.įrom that point on nothing could ever read the card again. I then tried deleting picts from the card using the camera. The last day there we went on a whale watching sunset sale and I took 400 some picts of whales, until the card was full. The first few days I took 550 picts and luckily copied them off the card to both my ipad and my PC Windows 8 laptop midway through the trip. Didn’t use the camera again until March when I went to Kauai for a week. I got the camera for Christmas and took less than 100 picts that week. Scandisk 16 MB SD card, Nikon 5100 (from Best Buy), newest firmware. I have reported the issue to SanDisk, Asus and now here just in case it helps someone else I tried formatting the SanDisk cards both in camera and using the computer (through the USB of course) with no change in the issue with reading the card. I narrowed it down to the cards themselves (yes I had two of the SanDisk cards) when I plugged in a Kingston SDHC card I had lying worked perfectly in the camera and the card reader. I was able to download pictures using the USB cable, that's just not my preferred method. I at first blamed the 8 in 1 cardreader (from ASUS) which had no trouble reading other media including the regular SD cards, however, there are lots of posts out there about needing to update drivers in Windows to read the high capacity, but, the card reader after checking all of that should have been able to read the card. I wonder if it is coincidental that I have just had a problem with reading the same SanDisk SDHC card in my laptop's card reader. It appeared to be resolved for that camera with a firmware update. I noticed a thread on the old discussion board about an issue the D5100 had with the SanDisk SDHC 16GB card.
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