Lexar CF cards FAIL - Sandisk?

[expatinasia]

You mean getting crazy like doing a cut and paste into google, and finding it as the primary number for Lexar support as listed on their webpage? 

http://www.lexar.com/support

Yes, something like that.    I knew posting before my first coffee of the morning was a bad idea. 

Thanks!

[Benhider]

I have had two Sandisk cards fail but none of my 10 Lexar 1000x cards have failed.  1Ds2, 1Ds3, 1D4, 1DX.  The Lexar cards have tens of thousands of shots on them each (if not hundreds of thousands).

Obviously I have already contacted Lexar, and there was no recovering the images! They did an extended recovery, and could only replace the card at best.

I'm switching to Sandisk, but also doubling all data at time of creation. (additonal SD on mark iii and CF on 1DX)

[willhunt]

I just had a shocking incident yesterday with a Lexar 16GB 1000X card. I'm shooting my daughters Varsity dance team at the University of Michigan's basketball venue. Great lighting, everything is going super smooth. Her team is walking onto the court for their final Pom routine of the season. This is IT. All of the practices and hard work have come down to this minute and a half. I snap a few as they're walking out, and BAM. My 1DMKIV turns to a brick. Cannot write to card.... blah,blah blah. I furiously power down the cam, pull and re-install the card, pull the the battery, and nothing works. My pro body, lens, and CF card is a BRICK! Nothing will work. I grab a SANDISK Exteme Pro card, and everything is back to normal, AS THE TEAM IS WALKING OFF THE COURT! To say the least, I am fu***ing pissed! The reason I purchased all professional gear, is so things like this CANNOT happen. When the decisive moment is there, I am ready.
Sorry to the forum for my rant, but i just had to vent somewhere. I am going to contact Lexar, but truly what can they do. The moment is gone. I not only didn't get any photos, I didn't even get to watch my daughters final dance routine, as I was fumbling to get the cam to work.
Sorry, Lexar. But it will be Sandisk for me from now on when the shots are critical.
Anyone on the forum ever hear of any problems with Lexar 1000X CF cards, and the Canon 1D Mk IV?
Sorry again for my rant. Great forum, and I plan on sticking around. Thanks.
And I must add, I bought two of these cards together from Adorama, so I'm pretty darn sure they aren't fakes.

[thepancakeman]

The reason I purchased all professional gear, is so things like this CANNOT happen.

Stuff like this can ALWAYS happen, that's why "professional gear" has two memory card slots.   

[acoll123]

The reason I purchased all professional gear, is so things like this CANNOT happen.

Stuff like this can ALWAYS happen, that's why "professional gear" has two memory card slots.   

I bought two 32gb 1,000x Sandisk Cards around Christmas from B&H. I shoot sports and had something similar happen to me a few times while shooting basketball games. At the time I had a 1DIV and a 5DIII. Happened with both cameras when I got close to filling the buffers. Luckily I kept the original packing and B&H agreed to take them back in exchange for 2 similar Sandisk cards - the Sandisk cards were almost twice as much but I have never had a similar problems to the one I had with the Lexar cards and my Canon Cameras. I will say the Lexar cards were super fast downloading from my card reader and I did have more buffer head room but it still wasn't worth worrying about camera lock up . . .

[willhunt]

The reason I purchased all professional gear, is so things like this CANNOT happen.

Stuff like this can ALWAYS happen, that's why "professional gear" has two memory card slots.   

Yes, you are absolutely correct. And I had a Sandisk Extreme Pro SD card resting comfortably in my bag. Not in the cam where it should have been. I am wondering if the cam would have shut down like it did, if I would have had that card in? I mean, the cam was dead. No functions, nothing in the viewfinder, nothing. The first time this has ever happened.

[acoll123]

The reason I purchased all professional gear, is so things like this CANNOT happen.

Stuff like this can ALWAYS happen, that's why "professional gear" has two memory card slots.   

I bought two 32gb 1,000x Sandisk Cards around Christmas from B&H. I shoot sports and had something similar happen to me a few times while shooting basketball games. At the time I had a 1DIV and a 5DIII. Happened with both cameras when I got close to filling the buffers. Luckily I kept the original packing and B&H agreed to take them back in exchange for 2 similar Sandisk cards - the Sandisk cards were almost twice as much but I have never had a similar problems to the one I had with the Lexar cards and my Canon Cameras. I will say the Lexar cards were super fast downloading from my card reader and I did have more buffer head room but it still wasn't worth worrying about camera lock up . . .

I should also point out that the cards didn't fail i.e. I didn't lose any data while I had the cards, they just didn't play well with my cameras . . .

[Simon_X_George]

Ive had exactly the opposite experience with my 7D. I was a conformed Sandisk user but experienced a issue with 60mb/s SanDisk extremes. Basically the image would save to the card but the 7D refused to let you see it on the camera and I "think" would overwrite it. Take the card out the camera and stick it in a reader or my 40D and you could see the image fine.

I swapped to Lexar x600's and have never seen the issue.

I should say that since I went to Firmware 2.0.x on the 7D the Sandisk do now seem to be behaving themselves but I just don't trust them in that body.