Slightly major disaster.....help! memory card stuck in camera.

[Newbank Lass]

I have just taken some photos, tried to take memory card out of camera and it is stuck. well and truly stuck. This happened to anyone? Anyone based in Nottingham got suggestion of where to take it to fix it? Bought on line from Currys. Its a Panasonic gx7. Its about 5 months old. HELP!!!!!!!

[Martin Smith]

Temporarily you could get photos from the camera to computer by using USB lead and re-formatting card so you con't use up the card too quickly.

WIll your local Curry's branch help? (I understand there can be helpful Currys branches).

Try wiggling the card, using a thumbnail, needle nose pliers.

Good luck

[Brandon]

I definitely wouldn't use tweezers or pliers or anything like that. Trying to force it out could damage the contacts in the camera, the last thing you want to do is make things worse. I'm not sure how close this is to you, but Panasonic lists this as the closest service centre to Nottingham:

D K AUDIO VISUAL SERVICES LTD
Unit 17, Gatwick Metro Centre,
Balcombe Road,
Horley,
RH6 9GA

Good luck!

[Jane Armstrong]

Have just googled it. Best advice seems to be tweezers but then to check the slot carefully with a torch to check the bars inside aren't bent. Have not been much help I know but 'google' seems answer most things. Good luck!

[Taffy]

No idea how to help but soooo sorry to read this! Good luck!

[Eve Pulsater]

It isn't something silly (like I would do) which is to forget to push the card inwards slightly, and gently, to release it?

[trishaclancy]

Hope you get it sorted. Yikes

[Sarah Munnings]

@creampuff oooh I've done that before now too, I've also put it in the wrong way around!


@newbank Really hope you can get this sorted, I think it is worth going into a Curry's especially one of the big ones, I know they have an awful reputation, but they can't all be bad :) or do you have a John Lewis near you?

[Newbank Lass]

@pixiemac @trishaclancy @creampuff @taffy @motherjane @hrethric @smudgekent Thanks all for advice. Left husband to go out to a meeting at school, got home to find my father in law somehow got it and left camera intact but card bit damaged. Hubby had downloaded my card for me so all images saved. I'm memory card less so need to purchase a new one but a very happy to have it out!

[Taffy]

@newbank what a relief!

[Newbank Lass]

@taffy It was very much so! I felt bereft with thought I had no functioning camera. Bit silly really. Its just a camera but goes to show how much my photography has started to mean to me!

[Bill Fenske]

Yay for you & FIL

[Newbank Lass]

@bill_fe FIL have their uses.

[Weng]

glad you got the card out and the images... but unless i'm missing something here, that means a new card could still potentially get stuck again??

sounds like a design flaw and i'd defo take it back along with the card and show them... see if you can get a new card to replace the broken one?

[Sue]

I would be taking the camera and the card into a camera shop for them to look at, preferably the one where you bought it? Good luck with it all anyway.

[Cally]

My son is too often putting his card in the wrong way and we tweezer it out. Glad you have a happy ending.

[kjbadger]

This happened to me in my Canon EOS 50D after I got it--I decided just to empty the card when full with my USB instead of paying to have it fixed. Good luck--I hope it's not terribly expensive.