An appointment in Torquay combined with this wonderful Indian summer seemed an ideal opportunity to record some of the less photogenic but no less interesting parts that some of the historical forums I'm on crave.
Equipped with 5D3 + 'walking about' 24-105 I diligently photographed lots of weird and wonderful 'off the tourist trail' (ie seedy) parts that I know are so popular. Part way though camera told me my CF was full so I swapped it for a fresh one and continued.
Back home, tired, hot and sweaty (Torquay, just like Rome is built on seven hills which serve as a reminder of how unfit one is) but with 198 images 'in the bag' I inserted the second CF card into my reader and transferred all the later images to safety. Then I inserted the first to be greeted with: "You need to format drive H: before you can use it" Bugger!
This is the first corrupt CF or SD card I've personally had but knew from the misfortune of a cousin whose photographs of her 'holiday of a lifetime' journey from Australia through China and Russia to Europe by train were potentially lost due to a corrupt SD card that recovery tools were available.
To get me out of my hole I turned to Google who informed that product X was free and up to the task so I downloaded it. Free? yes. Up to the task? Maybe but with a recovery limit a mere fraction of my card size without an expensive upgrade I wouldn't know. Product Y simply didn't work. Product Z used an archaic command line interface but worked (well, after retrying all the failures).
So, the upshot is that now I have the images I thought were lost I need to consider what replacement to buy - the one that failed was a Kingston 16GB ultimate 266X - any suggestions? Oh, and is there a downside to using both card slots in future?
Cheers,
John
Equipped with 5D3 + 'walking about' 24-105 I diligently photographed lots of weird and wonderful 'off the tourist trail' (ie seedy) parts that I know are so popular. Part way though camera told me my CF was full so I swapped it for a fresh one and continued.
Back home, tired, hot and sweaty (Torquay, just like Rome is built on seven hills which serve as a reminder of how unfit one is) but with 198 images 'in the bag' I inserted the second CF card into my reader and transferred all the later images to safety. Then I inserted the first to be greeted with: "You need to format drive H: before you can use it" Bugger!
This is the first corrupt CF or SD card I've personally had but knew from the misfortune of a cousin whose photographs of her 'holiday of a lifetime' journey from Australia through China and Russia to Europe by train were potentially lost due to a corrupt SD card that recovery tools were available.
To get me out of my hole I turned to Google who informed that product X was free and up to the task so I downloaded it. Free? yes. Up to the task? Maybe but with a recovery limit a mere fraction of my card size without an expensive upgrade I wouldn't know. Product Y simply didn't work. Product Z used an archaic command line interface but worked (well, after retrying all the failures).
So, the upshot is that now I have the images I thought were lost I need to consider what replacement to buy - the one that failed was a Kingston 16GB ultimate 266X - any suggestions? Oh, and is there a downside to using both card slots in future?
Cheers,
John
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