Hi all,
As the original poster to this topic, I am adding an update to the thread of my recent experiences.
I contacted Lexar again about the problem with the replacement card I received, and though they offered no advice, they offered to simply replace the card all over again for me. I think the adage, "fool me once, shame on them. Fool me twice, shame on me" is appropriate. Needless to say I did not ask for a replacement.
I have been shooting with a different SD memory card in my 6D for weeks now, a cheaper Transcend 8GB SDHC class 10 memory card, and have had no issues with image corruption or anything of the sort. This leads me to suspect that Lexar memory cards may be the problem.
Second, I was contacted by another Canon 6D user directly by email, and she reported the exact same issues with her Lexar card. She even got her 6D camera replaced. She reported that switching to a Sandisk Extreme card seems to prevent the image corruption issues from reoccuring, for now.
Finally, I contacted Canon support to ask them about this problem, and one interesting piece of information the support agent said was that Canon does not test their cameras with Lexar cards. They test with Sandisk, Panasonic and another brand I can't recall. I don't know if this is true given how ubiquitous Lexar memory cards are, but I take it at face value.
Based on these observations, I can only hypothesize that my Canon 6D camera, and that of some others, is INCOMPATIBLE with LEXAR 32GB SDHC Class 10 memory cards.
Unless Canon develops some kind of firmware update, or if Lexar changes something about their cards, I will not be buying LEXAR cards in future for my Canon cameras.
As the original poster to this topic, I am adding an update to the thread of my recent experiences.
I contacted Lexar again about the problem with the replacement card I received, and though they offered no advice, they offered to simply replace the card all over again for me. I think the adage, "fool me once, shame on them. Fool me twice, shame on me" is appropriate. Needless to say I did not ask for a replacement.
I have been shooting with a different SD memory card in my 6D for weeks now, a cheaper Transcend 8GB SDHC class 10 memory card, and have had no issues with image corruption or anything of the sort. This leads me to suspect that Lexar memory cards may be the problem.
Second, I was contacted by another Canon 6D user directly by email, and she reported the exact same issues with her Lexar card. She even got her 6D camera replaced. She reported that switching to a Sandisk Extreme card seems to prevent the image corruption issues from reoccuring, for now.
Finally, I contacted Canon support to ask them about this problem, and one interesting piece of information the support agent said was that Canon does not test their cameras with Lexar cards. They test with Sandisk, Panasonic and another brand I can't recall. I don't know if this is true given how ubiquitous Lexar memory cards are, but I take it at face value.
Based on these observations, I can only hypothesize that my Canon 6D camera, and that of some others, is INCOMPATIBLE with LEXAR 32GB SDHC Class 10 memory cards.
Unless Canon develops some kind of firmware update, or if Lexar changes something about their cards, I will not be buying LEXAR cards in future for my Canon cameras.
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