Hi, I noticed there is one broken off pin and one bent pin inside the card slot of my EOS 350D.
However, despite of this, the CF memory card is still working with the camera and images are written onto it, and I can view the pictures from the card on the camera display. There doesn't seem to be a problem as far as I can tell. I intend to keep the CF card (which is a 1 GB card) inside the camera and transfer pictures from the camera through the USB cable (which I usually do with my cameras).
See the image attached below (left arrow show the bent pin, and the right arrow show the missing pin).
How come it works when two of the pins do not have contact with the card?
Also, is/might there be any problem with this, or is everything perfectly fine since it is working?
Thank you,
- Steria
Of course you can't repair the broken pin but you can get a needle nose pliers and straighten the bent pin. I have done it before but you have to be careful as it can break off from too much bending.
Repairing the broken pin will far exceed the value of the camera. Notwithstanding the fact you only paid $20 bucks which is probably not its true value. 
@ebiggs1 wrote:Of course you can't repair the broken pin but you can get a needle nose pliers and straighten the bent pin. I have done it before but you have to be careful as it can break off from too much bending.
Repairing the broken pin will far exceed the value of the camera. Notwithstanding the fact you only paid $20 bucks which is probably not its true value.
A couple of years ago I managed to fix some bent pins in the CF slot of a 20D(!) for a colleague at work. He was delighted, because the camera was in mint condition otherwise. Right after he bought it new, his wife had forced a card in backwards and grunched the pins, and he had simply thrown it in a closet and ignored it for several years.
ebiggs1 wrote:
Of course you can't repair the broken pin but you can get a needle nose pliers and straighten the bent pin. I have done it before but you have to be careful as it can break off from too much bending.
Repairing the broken pin will far exceed the value of the camera. Notwithstanding the fact you only paid $20 bucks which is probably not its true value.
I mainly bought the camera for its lens, as my other 18-55 IS lens on my main camera (450D) has a defective autofocus. However, I will be using this camera as a secondary camera, therefore I want to make sure it is 100%.
When I bought the 350D here, the previous owner actually said she had a memory card for it, but she never got it to fit and therefore thought she had bought the wrong size memory card. I quickly found out that there were several bent pins inside the camera CF slot (about 4 or 5 of them). I can only assume to how she managed to bend the pins. I did manage to bend most of them back carefully, however one of them snapped (hence the broken one as seen in the image in post #1).
When the pin snapped a freezing chill went down my spine, and I thought I had bricked the whole thing...
