topic Re: please help.. in General Discussion

please help..

dal33a — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 11:51:00 GMT

i have recorded for about 29.38 min and just read up on it that u cant record for longer than 30min..my sd card is 128gb...and i have taken off all the photos and videos from it and tried recording again and it still wont work..is my sd card damaged or what? pleaseeeee answer...thanks so much...:)

Re: please help..

RobertTheFat — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:30:31 GMT

The 30-minute limit is not a technical glitch or a failure of your SD card to perform correctly. Rather it's an intentinal limit that the manufacturer has incorporated in order to keep the camera from being taxed as a video camera under one or more international trade agreements. If the time limit is a show-stopper, you'll have to buy a camcorder instead.

If the camera won't record at all, try reformatting the card, and make sure the write protection switch that most SD cards have isn't turned on.

Re: please help..

dal33a — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:39:33 GMT

how do you reformat the card and all? and yeh it won't record at all using that sd card and so i had to switch to another sd card.. but how do i reformat it and all?

Re: please help..

RobertTheFat — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:49:02 GMT

@dal33a wrote:
how do you reformat the card and all? and yeh it won't record at all using that sd card and so i had to switch to another sd card.. but how do i reformat it and all?

Reformatting is a menu item. I believe that on most Canon cameras it's in the menu headed by a small icon of a wrench.

The write protection switch is a tiny slide switch on the edge of the SD card itself.

Re: please help..

dal33a — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:01:16 GMT

but..its saying that it will erase all my data..

Re: please help..

Waddizzle — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:47:59 GMT

@dal33a wrote:
but..its saying that it will erase all my data..

Didn't you say in your initial post that you have already removed all photos and videos from the card?

Re: please help..

jrhoffman75 — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 15:23:59 GMT

That's a standard warning that pops up.

If you press the blue playback arrow does anything show on the camera LCD?