What dos it mean when my TL205 camera says “card locked”??
In the same way that the recordings on audio cassettes and VHS tapes could be protected by breaking off the little tab on the back corner, the material on a memory card can be protected against being overwritten. Instead of a tab to break off, write protection is done by a tiny slider on the edge of the card (opposite the cut corner). Before the camera will take pictures, it’s necessary that this slider on the card operates a microswitch in the camera, which it will only do if it’s NOT in the ‘lock’ position. The slider actually does nothing inside the card, which is why I don’t call it a ‘switch’ even though it seems like one. Its only purpose is to be detected by the microswitch in the camera’s slot, and it’s the camera that takes care of the write protection, not the card.
