Sound, I use the 8gb in my D3 and 4's in my D700 and they work perfect. RG had them right at the top for speed and they were the best bang for buck and available. Think there was a small drop for the larger 16's but still a great value and no issues.
I have just started having this problem so I was doing a Google search to find a remedy or at least others are experiencing the same thing and came across this thread.
Here is my experience:
I have a D3 that is giving me some intermittent problems with telling me that my CF cards are full even at times when I put a new set of formatted cards in each slot. This is happening with different card brands and sizes. In particular the newest Transcend 16GB 300x UDMA card and also the smaller 8GB Ridata Blue Label 233X Lightning Series Cards.
Here is my set up:
D3, I use a card in each slot, Slot A set to capture RAW files, Slot B is set to Large JPG.
Cards on formatted in camera.
I use matching paris of cards to start the day. Two cards from the same manufacture, same size and same speed.
Here is what is happening.
I start the wedding day with a Transcend 16GB card in each slot and all goes well until the card in Slot A is full. Since it is recording RAW files it fills first. I will replace the card in slot A with another 16GB Transcend but the card in slot B is not changed since it is far from being full. This is where the intermittent problem begins happening, sometimes it happens within just two or three frames other times it may not start happening until 200-300 frames have been shot. But the D3 will eventually tell me that a card is full when I know for sure it is no where near being full, I don't think it differentiates which card is full, I think the message simply says that you have a full card but I don't remember for sure. If I take the card out of the A slot the one assigned to capture RAW files and replace it with another known to be formatted and empty card it will start off just fine but eventually it will give me the same message. I can all so just pop the Card in the A slot out and then reinsert it and everything will be fine for awhile but eventually I will get the same message again. Even if I swap out both cards in slots A & B at the time the the card in slot A is actually filled I will get the message too. This also happens with the Ridata cards too, so I do not think that it is a problem with any specific card size or manufacture but maybe a camera software bug. At yesterday's wedding I probably had to pop the card in slot A 12-15 times to be able to keep shooting.
This occurred with 50 1.4 and the 85 1.4 and possibly others as well but those two lenses for sure.
Has anyone read anything about this anywhere? I have the latest firmware for the D3 installed.
Wow! I thought I was the only to experience this problem!
I have two Nikon D3's and I have this problem from time to time on both of them. At some point it would just stop taking pics and say that I have no room left in my card. The remaining shots will show "0" and taken shots will show "1"
It can get very frustrating as I shoot weddings and just a thought that my shots are gone or could be gone freaks me out.
People need to contribute to this thread if they have the same problems to bring it to Nikon's attention!
Nikon, please fix the bug!
I know this is an older thread that I'm reviving... but I've having this problem again....
I was shooting with my D3 with two 8GB Sandisk Extreme III cards, and had the same problem. After 3xx shots, I had a cd0 error, but if I remove it and stick it in, it initially looks fine, with a hundred or so shots left, but a second later when I had my finger on the shutter, the same error/message came on again.
I took card 1 out, and put card 2 into slot 1, and the same thing happenned before I even started shooting again. card 2 was empty. but if I put card 1 into slot 2, it will let me shoot.
I recommend emailing Nikon support about this. The more people that let them know the better the chance they will fix in a firmware update. I have only had it happen once, but it was damn annoying.
Not D3 related, but I've not had the best luck with my Sandisk Extremem III 8gb cards. One of them fried itself and was labeled as 'unrecoverable' by a third party data rescue service. Even the replacement and my other 8gb card seem to get random errors more than my other cards. I wonder if it's all Sandisk related.
