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If your Canon EOS R5 II has a Sandisk SD card, you may want to check if it is compatible. Canon recently put out a warningreported by digital imagesThat “some SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-II 64GB, 128GB and 256GB V60 cards” may cause still images taken with the camera “to be recorded as corrupt/abnormal.”
The exact model numbers of cards will vary by region, but Sandisk’s support site It tells which cards are compatible with the EOS R5 II and which are not. The cards in question have a big red “Not Compatible” stamp next to them, so they’ll be hard to miss. However, the broadly affected models are:
- SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-II V60 64GB
- SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-II V60 128GB
- SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-II V60 256GB
If you have an EOS R5 II and you use one of these cards with it, your best bet is to switch to something else. SanDisk there is an article The title is “Steps to resolve still image issue with Canon EOS R5 Mark II with SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-II V60 64, 128, and 256GB,” but the resolution section is empty.
Neither Canon nor Sandisk say why these specific cards are incompatible with the EOS R5 II. This is especially baffling because Sandisk’s compatibility list shows other cards in the exact same Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-II V60 line as compatible – what is it that makes the 256GB incompatible with the EOS R5 II which is 512GB? Or doesn’t affect the 1TB version? Why is a 128GB V90 card OK? We’ve contacted Sandisk for more information, and will update the article if we hear back.
