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Broken D600 SD card slot, has this happened to you?


mark_stephan2

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I'm not sure what happened, when I got home after taking pictures this evening I popped the SD card out of slot 1 inserted it into my computer and copied the pictures and tried to put the card back in but it won't seat. If I push it in and hold it the LED stays on and when I let go it pops out and I can't close the door. Has this ever happened to you and does Nikon still repair the D600 or is it to old? The card in slot 2 goes in and out perfectly and I've tried multiple cards in slot 1 and none of them get seated and just pop out just enough to prevent the door from closing. All is not lost, I still have slot 2 but I do shoot jpg and raw which is not possible now. I'm retired and have no desire to go mirrorless because it's just to expensive.
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I've managed to get a card seated in the #1 slot, the camera recognizes it and rather than eject it take a chance I can't get it to seat again I'll just leave it. I'll write jpg to #1 and raw to #2 plus video. This might be the excuse I need to upgrade to a D610 or D750. I still want to know what happened? I've been using Nikon dSLR bodies since the D50 came out and never had a problem with any card slot before this incident. :-(
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I still want to know what happened?

SD card slots have a mechanism similar to a retractable Biro. Push once to insert, push a second time to eject.

 

First push compresses a spring and the card gets latched into place. Second push releases the latch and the spring pushes the card out.

 

My guess is that the insert catch didn't/doesn't pop into whatever holds it down. Maybe a bit of dirt got in there, or something bent or broke. These things happen.

 

I suspect that Nikon don't make the card slots themselves, but buy them in bulk like many other components.

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I guess you could seat a card in with a thin wedge...so you now have a Special D600 with 64GB internal memory.

Access by cable only

It is a little better than that.

 

Yeah, if that card is stuck in slot 1 but working, I'll leave it alone as a secondary card. You can always upload by plugging a USB cable onto the D600. However, all Nikon DSLRs and Z bodies with dual memory cards allow you to copy from one card to another, in either direction. You can always copy all image file from the stuck card to the other card and then insert the other card in a card reader.

 

I have done that a few times with my D500 because I forgot to bring an XQD card reader with me on trips.

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However, all Nikon DSLRs and Z bodies with dual memory cards allow you to copy from one card to another, in either direction.

Well, I never knew that!

I guess it's in the camera processing part of the menu that I rarely use.

 

I've never needed to do that, but it's useful to know that the facility exists. Thanks!

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I guess you could seat a card in with a thin wedge...so you now have a Special D600 with 64GB internal memory.

Access by cable only

 

Or you could affix a small portion of sponge like material to either the door of the memory compartment or the top of the card so the closed door would hold the card in its slot with the card contacts connecting to the contacts in the body. You would have to be careful since the door slides horizontally to lock.

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