A CF card short can circuit your camera!? It short circuited mine!
 

Need some professional help/opinions from those who are in this business and I am sure there seem to be many who KNOW about their photography.

Here is what happened.

I just got my camera body and I keep it very close to me and baby it since.

When I tried to turn on my camera, nothing happened! Literally nothing happened. The little red light thats just at the bottom of the large dial did not get turned on (as it usually would for a second or two when the camera is cleansing the sensor).

At first, I thought it was my battery went completely DEAD, so I took out my 2nd fully charged backup battery (OEM canon battery), and I still cant turn on.

I took my friends 50D camera battery out and use it on mine, and I still cannot turn on my 50D.

I put my battery in my friends 50D, it works and I do have full charge on both of my OEM batteries. So its not the battery.

Then, we tried to switch different lens, as we thought it might be my EFS 17-55 f2.8 lens. So I tried my friends 17-40L, and my camera still cant turn on.

Then, I took out my 16G CF card (some digiExpress brand I have never heard of that came with the camera), and inserted my backup Kingston CF card, still did not work!

Now, after about 5 min of trying other things, I put back my 4G backup card, my 50D now turns on!! (what a relief at the time).

So, at the end of the night, we were 95% sure it was the CF card that is "short circuiting" my camera?

My 30D friend said that he knows that if a bad CF card is inserted, the 50D would give you an error on the LCD screen or some sort of message. BUT, he has never heard of inserting a bad CF card and the camera body wont turn on issue!

anyone has or heard similar issues?

I'm still pretty new to this newly found hobby of photography..

Thanks

Never heard of this before, but i guess that's when you wana get quality stuff and not just some crap that you've never heard of. I guess they are name brands for a reason.

That's a long story. Could've trimmed it down a bit :p

And no, I haven't heard of that before either. Toss that card in the garbage right now.

sorry.

I think I should. Let me work on that a little.

no, I am mailing the 16G back to the vendor and they're giving me another 16G CF from Kingston, which is pretty much as good as you can get in terms of manufacturer reputation as they are one of the largest memory maker in the world.

Wow, that was hard to read...

The card may have been corrupted. Get a Lexar Professional or Sandisk card for ultimate reliability.