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Canon 7D recording issues

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bdieter1d3
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One of my friends got his 7D yesterday and we tried to record some video today and after pressing the start button it would only record for about 3-5 seconds then would stop recording. Anyone one here know what the heck is going on?  and yes there is a huge CF card in there so storage room isn't the issue
Aug 20 2010 9:00PM
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powday
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is the battery charged? I dont know much about the 7D but with my t1i the batteries gotta be pretty charged for it to record
Aug 20 2010 9:13PM
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bdieter1d3
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yeah, the battery is freshly charged

Aug 20 2010 9:25PM
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Milksteak
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You probably need a bigger memory card or whatever it is....

My buddy got a t2i and the same thing happened and that was the problem.
Aug 20 2010 9:43PM
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family_vacation
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It's the speed of the card, not the size.

You need a class six.
Aug 21 2010 1:23AM
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1337
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higher bitrate on the card.

I think something like 144x , not too sure about CF cards
Aug 21 2010 2:50AM
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ReedSkis~
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same thing happened to me (i was using a class 4) and I upgrade to a class six and it kept happening. I shelled out for a sandisk class ten and it hasn't happened since...
Aug 21 2010 9:28AM
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bdieter1d3
Posts: 279 - Karma: 15
thanks guys, the speed was the problem. got it all figured out
Aug 21 2010 10:53AM
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family_vacation
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My 6 is fine.
Aug 21 2010 5:35PM
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ReedSkis~
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My 4 was fine, but I got nervous it would randomly fail, so I got the 6 but it didn't work... The 10 will have to do lol
Aug 22 2010 12:17AM
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