Compact flash bent pins

[Blue]

That's what she said last night... irate:

Jaime you dawg! Shawn stop encouraging this filth.

 

[Blue]

Even with extensive use I've been fortunate enough never to have bent a card pin. To be honest I didn't even know it was possible. Now you've given me something to worry about. Cheers.

 

[Mike Prevette]

It would be both difficult and risky! those pins are fucking close together, and I drink way to much coffee to do an surface mount soldering by hand. I was just showing an alternate part that could be incorporated into RED's design.

I was also thinking of soem kind of extension cable that would be mounted to the internal CF port, and provide an external socket. So If you ruined a pin on set, you could go back to the internal port.

Mike, are you saying you can replace the existing red cf module's cf socket with this push button one? If so, would that be difficult and/or risky?

 

[Omnius]

We have experienced bent CF pins on shoots. As Matt has said the quickest way to fix this is with a jewelers screwdriver to right the bent pin and a headlamp to see what you're doing. Of course there will only be a limited number of times you can do this before you lose the pin altogether. . . .

Thank you Rocketeer for your post and providing this info

 

[Charles Perkins]

if a pin snaps off, do we have to send the camera back to red to have another cf module fitted? or can we fit it our selves?

 

[Mike Prevette]

It's a user installable device. The RAW port is the only side module that needs to be done at the factory.