topic Re: Busy Canon EOS rebel T7 in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Busy Canon EOS rebel T7

LA_avgeek853 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:11:36 GMT

I am a planespotter and I was taking photos with my Canon EOS rebel T7 and it says busy, Is it the Format or is it the SD card? My format is Raw + JPEG

Re: Busy Canon EOS rebel T7

kvbarkley — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:45:16 GMT

Could be either. Is it a full size card? When Wes the last time you low level formatted in the camera?

Re: Busy Canon EOS rebel T7

LA_avgeek853 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:08:53 GMT

I low level formatted the camera a few days before

Re: Busy Canon EOS rebel T7

stevet1 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:30:39 GMT

LA_avgeek853,

It could be the size of your card. What size are you using? 4gb? 8gb, 128gb?

Try taking just jpg or just RAW for a little bit. Do you still have the same problem?

Steve Thomas

Re: Busy Canon EOS rebel T7

ebiggs1 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:24:51 GMT

A few things first reset the camera to default settings. Second only use the full sized SD that is recommended in your manual and buy the SD from a known good source. Amazon is not a good source because you may get a counterfeit SD form one of Amazon's Marketplace sellers and not know it. BTW, neither is eBay. IMHO, I would stop saving raw+jpg there is no good reason any longer to do that. Just save raw alone. Make sure the battery is in good shape and fully charged.

As to SD formatting if you are a Windows user you can format the SD on your computer. Select FAT32 for 32GB or smaller SD. I am not a Mac user so I don't know if it can format the SD correctly. Perhaps it can using their special formatting app. My son is a Mac user but I have not tried it.

If the full reset and new known good full sized (not a micro-SD) SD doesn't fix your problem you most likely have a faulty camera.

Re: Busy Canon EOS rebel T7

Waddizzle — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:42:37 GMT

As others have indicated, you probably have a memory card issue. The telltale would be the red LED staying lit while the display shows BUSY.

With this camera model, you want to avoid using microSD cards and SDXC Sd cards, 64GB and larger.

Stuck to only using SDHC SD cards, 32GB and smaller.