topic Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while shooting

austinhargrave — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 21:03:23 GMT

While tethering with Capture one, the viewfinder or rear display always display it has no card in the camera, which is a little distracting while shooting. Does anyone else have this problem or know of a fix to stop it!?

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

Mark35mmF2 — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 04:55:14 GMT

Hi there,

I'm not familiar with CaptureOne but if you have not done so already I would advise putting a memory card in the camera even if you are shooting directly to the computer. This might be something specific to do with the software which could be resolved through an update but to know if that is the case you would want to reach out to the developers of CaptureOne.

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

jrhoffman75 — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 17:04:33 GMT

@austinhargrave wrote:
While tethering with Capture one, the viewfinder or rear display always display it has no card in the camera, which is a little distracting while shooting. Does anyone else have this problem or know of a fix to stop it!?

Sounds like it is a camera firmware message.

Not sure about the R5, but most Canon cameras have a Menu setting to allow shutter relase without card without a card.

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

austinhargrave — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:07:22 GMT

Capture One will not see the camera with any card in the camera! it has to be cardless to tether to C1.

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

travisphoto — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:38:01 GMT

I am experiencing this problem - very frustrating.

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

austinhargrave — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 00:39:24 GMT

With a card in the camera, Capture One will not see/recognize a camera as connected (will not tether) The only way is to remove the card and capture images to a computer. I would love to shoot with an option of what was images were saved to where, jpegs v raws etc....but baby steps! Changing the "Release shutter without card" option in the menu does not fix the error message. Photo of viewfinder when connected to Capture One!

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

travisphoto — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 05:48:21 GMT

There is a decent workaround! Change the "VF display format" (which can be found on the 8th page of the first Menu ((the red camera icon menu - SHOOT8)) to Display 2. This gives the image that you see through THE VIEWFINDER a black frame and keeps the annoying "No card in camera" warning out of the image and less distracting.

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

saraessex — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:53:24 GMT

I really hate this too. I don't know who should fix this, Cap1 to allow shooting the card while tethered, or Canon, to allow us to remove this warning. So frustrating when trying to compose a shot.

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

travisphoto — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:11:54 GMT

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

saraessex — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:15:31 GMT

Yes, thank you, but it's not ideal bc the viewfinder image is smaller.

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

AlyWhitman — Sat, 21 May 2022 15:06:01 GMT

Why are you responding to this problem if you aren't familiar with Capture One? This is definitely a canon firmware issue as it hasn't been a problem in any other canon camera.

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

AlyWhitman — Sat, 21 May 2022 15:07:41 GMT

Please fix this bug and stop suggesting we turn on "release shutter without card". Clearly the problem we are having is in composing the shot, not in releasing the shutter.

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

Waddizzle — Sat, 21 May 2022 20:46:58 GMT

The Canon and Adobe softeare do not run into this issue. To me, it sounds like the problem is Capture One requiring that the card be removed in the first place, which others do not.

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

shadowsports — Sun, 22 May 2022 15:18:40 GMT

@Waddizzle wrote:
The Canon and Adobe software do not run into this issue. To me, it sounds like the problem is Capture One requiring that the card be removed in the first place, which others do not.

I fully agree, this is not a Canon bug or issue. Just because "it didn't happen with previous Canon cameras". @Mark35mmF2 is by far one of the more knowledgeable (veteran) contributors here. He doesn't need to apologize, he's not a Capture1 expert.

Capture1 indicates support for the R5.

Camera models and RAW files support in Capture One – Capture One

Some of you appear to have found undesired behavior in their application.

The R5 and 6 are not "like previous Canon Camera's". They allow connection of external recording devices and thus, their operating systems are more robust / flexible / different. I suggest you make a feature request, with Capture1. I'd like my new Canon product to work more seamlessly with your software like previous versions did. Canon does not need to change their FW so 'No Card In Camera" will not appear in the OSD or Capture1 application during composition. Capture1 can certainly choose to suppress that though if they want to include it in their roadmap.

We're all here to try and help, but the expectations do need to be reasonable.

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

johnmakesmoves — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 20:08:57 GMT

The solution is to shoot with an SD card and not a CF.

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

johnmakesmoves — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 20:09:30 GMT

it will work with an SD card but not a CF

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

johnmakesmoves — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 20:09:52 GMT

Try it with an SD card

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

shadowsports — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 20:32:55 GMT

@johnmakesmoves,

Awesome!! There was a lot of back and forth about this. Excellent you found the work around.

I am not a Capture1 user, but I know they have a forum. I did a bunch of research when this thread got posted trying to determine what was causing the issue. Someone may need to raise this with the Capture1 developers. I think the R5 MKII is rumored to have 2 CFExpress type B cards. We are a ways off so they have time to fix this for those who will shoot tethered to their software.

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

jrhoffman75 — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 20:37:58 GMT

From what I have read CFExpress cards present them selves as disk drives rather than memory cards. That may be the source of the problem.

Re: R5 tethering to Capture One always displays "no card in camera" in viewfinder while sh

JoNo_Nienaber — Tue, 27 May 2025 09:35:06 GMT

i feel that Canon should fix this....