Thom Hogan is collecting data on various D500 Issues, look here

[Randy]

As we are seeing, the issues seem to be only when a Lexar card, or perhaps even a 32GB Sandisk, are in the SD slot. What is strange is that many of us have no issues at all, I have been using a Lexar XQD 64GB as primary with a Lexar 32GB 2000x SD as overflow, no issues at all.

Hopefully I will have an "offending" card in the next few days, one way or another, to test in my D500.

I use a 32gb 95mb/s Sandisk sd card, no problems. My '20' battery only lasted for 400 shots though

Interesting.My workflow does not include auto image review on, Thom didnt specify if the cards work properly if you have this option set to "off" and review images just every once in a while when you want.

same here, turned it off years ago on all my bodies

 

[trenchmonkey]

Hey Thommy, collect THIS...no issues. Sorry I can't add to the witch hunt
Sony and Lexar XQD's, Li-ion 01's and 20's workin' fine.

 

[Dilomski]

Hey Thommy, collect THIS...no issues. Sorry I can't add to the witch hunt
Sony and Lexar XQD's, Li-ion 01's and 20's workin' fine.

My camera is coming tomorrow, hope to share the same info as you

 

[Baywing]

I'm with Will so far, no problems other than my own lack of skills. Spare batt is -01 but works fine. Only using XQD cards, Sony, 32 Gb type G and an older 16 Gb card that came with the D4 (S?). No lens issues, all my 3rd party stuff works fine. Sigma 150 macro, 150-600 Sport and Tokina 12-24. My Nikon 80-400 does seem to chatter the AF but it does that on the D4 so it's likely the lens.

 

[trenchmonkey]

^ Good to hear, Warren. I've fine tuned 6 of 12 lenses so far. One @+2, two @ +1
and the rest no adjustment required. Can't say enough about what a great job
Nikon did with this body. I have to "try" to miss focus, now.

 

[Baywing]

Will,
I'm having no trouble at all missing focus with the Sport, still not used to 900mm effective hand-held. I haven't found any indication that lenses used so far require any micro adjustment. Even the D5 is playing nicely with lenses so far.

 

[Dilomski]

I use a 32gb 95mb/s Sandisk sd card, no problems. My '20' battery only lasted for 400 shots though.

I have the same card, but only 400 shots is very low.My D7000 makes around 1500-1600 shots on a battery, easy.Maybe the battery is too new and needs to "get going".

 

[Randy]

I have the same card, but only 400 shots is very low.My D7000 makes around 1500-1600 shots on a battery, easy.Maybe the battery is too new and needs to "get going".

I think it was one of my other batteries and I suspect it was searching for wifi. It's in airplane mode now so I'll see next time out

 

[Randy]

Hey Thommy, collect THIS...no issues. Sorry I can't add to the witch hunt
Sony and Lexar XQD's, Li-ion 01's and 20's workin' fine.

Did you turn wifi off ? Are the 20s the newer batteries ? Thx

 

[Retief]

Interesting.My workflow does not include auto image review on, Thom didnt specify if the cards work properly if you have this option set to "off" and review images just every once in a while when you want.

It doesn't seem to matter, I have seen a fair number of reports of people having issues with it both on and off.

 

[Retief]

Hey Thommy, collect THIS...no issues. Sorry I can't add to the witch hunt
Sony and Lexar XQD's, Li-ion 01's and 20's workin' fine.

I think you and I have the "lucky cameras", Will. I have the same as you with the same results. Unfortunately I have heard from enough folks to believe there is something going on other than a witch hunt. Hopefully I will have a chance to test, and see, an offending card in a few days.

 

[Dilomski]

It doesn't seem to matter, I have seen a fair number of reports of people having issues with it both on and off.

True, I just got the same response from Thom.Currently I have only UHS I SD card 95mb/s and I will use that with my camera.In a couple of weeks I want to move to UHS II speeds, but I will carefully check in the shop for the problem in advance.Might as well buy a XQD card at the end.

 

[Geof]

Well, how about Sandisk UHS II?I plan to get of those for my D500.

The 64GB Sandisk version UHS II (280MB/s) works fine for me.

/Soapbox
I guess I'm not surprised on the Lexar reports. When I first started buying CF cards they were Lexar cards. At one point I had to send several back to Lexar for issues in Nikon DSLR's. IIRC this happened 2-3 times on different occasions and after that I started buying Sandisk cards. I've never needed to send Sandisk cards back to Sandisk, but, so it seems, Lexar still has issues that will require a trip back home to fix.
/End Soapbox

 

[Randy]

i use Lexars and have never had a problem. Only 1 card in 12 years was bad, a Transcend

 

[Retief]

The 64GB Sandisk version UHS II (280MB/s) works fine for me.

/Soapbox
I guess I'm not surprised on the Lexar reports. When I first started buying CF cards they were Lexar cards. At one point I had to send several back to Lexar for issues in Nikon DSLR's. IIRC this happened 2-3 times on different occasions and after that I started buying Sandisk cards. I've never needed to send Sandisk cards back to Sandisk, but, so it seems, Lexar still has issues that will require a trip back home to fix.
/End Soapbox

i use Lexars and have never had a problem. Only 1 card in 12 years was bad, a Transcend

I have been using CF since 2000, IBM Microdrives, and SD since, well, when they were first needed in a camera I had, can't remember which one. In all of those years I have 1 physical card failure. I have had 2 cards, 1 Transcend CF and one Kingston CF, that had firmware incompatibilities, Transcend eventually fixed their issue, Kingston decided they were not on the CF but they sent me an equivalent SD as replacement. I have had, and have seen, a fair number of "failed" cards which were simply FAT corruption, fixed by Full Format and Error Check on a PC.

That said, I have seen enough real issues to know that some batches of cards have had issues, could be bad QA, who knows. Folks like Will, Randy and I have been lucky. Or maybe it is just Good Karma because We Three are such Good People

 

[Naptown]

The Nikon battery from my D800 works fine in the D500 so far.

 

[Geof]

I have been using CF since 2000, IBM Microdrives, and SD since, well, when they were first needed in a camera I had, can't remember which one. In all of those years I have 1 physical card failure. I have had 2 cards, 1 Transcend CF and one Kingston CF, that had firmware incompatibilities, Transcend eventually fixed their issue, Kingston decided they were not on the CF but they sent me an equivalent SD as replacement. I have had, and have seen, a fair number of "failed" cards which were simply FAT corruption, fixed by Full Format and Error Check on a PC.

That said, I have seen enough real issues to know that some batches of cards have had issues, could be bad QA, who knows. Folks like Will, Randy and I have been lucky. Or maybe it is just Good Karma because We Three are such Good People

My Lexar issues did not involve card failures - they needed a firmware update to make them play well with others (well at least my Nikon DSLR at the time). I think two of them were the same model/batch and then it happened again about a year or two later with a different Lexar CF card. After that I switched to Sandisk and since I've never had any issues with them I just stuck with them. Of course Sandisk doesn't make XQD cards but Sony does (I do have one Lexar XQD which I will try later to see if it has any issues). So far I've had no issues whatsoever with anything...including batteries and memory cards.

 

[trenchmonkey]

Did you turn wifi off ? Are the 20s the newer batteries ? Thx

The newer ones ARE the 20's and WiFi is off, as is all other unnecessary crap. I just need a fast focusing
body and that's exactly what I've got. Ran another 90 shots thru her this morning (~2000 so far) and I
don't think I missed one. Maybe only the first few hundred made are "good ones" my serial #'s 3000101

 

[Retief]

My Lexar issues did not involve card failures - they needed a firmware update to make them play well with others (well at least my Nikon DSLR at the time). I think two of them were the same model/batch and then it happened again about a year or two later with a different Lexar CF card. After that I switched to Sandisk and since I've never had any issues with them I just stuck with them. Of course Sandisk doesn't make XQD cards but Sony does (I do have one Lexar XQD which I will try later to see if it has any issues). So far I've had no issues whatsoever with anything...including batteries and memory cards.

In defense of Lexar, in the past they have seemed more receptive than most to update firmware when needed, and to acknowledge it. The Transcend issue I had took them over 6 months to even acknowledge, when it was obvious they had not followed the, then new, UDMA7 spec. I can't even remember which manufacturer I saw with an actual physical failure.

 

[Montec]

Mine has no battery issues I can see so far, I have used my old D810 battery and a new 20 series. I have WiFi off if that matters.
I do have issues with the Lexar 2000 SD card. I get CARD ERROR message after viewing an image. Power off and on seems to fix it.
The card works fine in the D7100 and D810.