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05/14/2006 09:56:53 AM · #1 |
Yesterday I was taking pictures of a local police officers funeral procession. Very long sad story, but I made such a stupid mistake. As I was shooting I used up the card and switched cards but I forgot to turn off the camera. Shots I know I got, because I saw them through the lens and I was shocked I got were not on the card when I downloaded. Talk about feeling like an idiot. I lost about 40 pictures. Is this the reason? Should just turn in all my equipment now.
Totally bummed.
K
Message edited by author 2006-05-14 09:57:19.
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05/14/2006 10:01:23 AM · #2 |
I almost never turn off the camera before changing cards and haven't lost anything. The 10D shuts itself off when the card door is opened.
What could of happened is the card was still writing when you took it out therefore corrupting some of the information.
Is there an indicator light that is on when the card is being written? |
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05/14/2006 10:04:55 AM · #3 |
It all depends on if you switch while the camera is trying to access the card in some way or not I think.
Safest method is to turn the camera off, but in the heat of the moment, you don't always think that methodically. Just try to make it a habit, and then you don't have to think about it.
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05/14/2006 10:05:54 AM · #4 |
It can take a while for the camera to write the information to the card, esp if you shoot in RAW, esp with a D2X that has huge file sizes. If you turn off the camera before it finishes writing the information then you wont get the image. That has nothing to do with changing cards but just how you shoot your images.
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05/14/2006 10:10:46 AM · #5 |
turning off the camera, yanking out the card, having the battery die - while the camera is writing or reading from the card is a likely way to lose images and corrupt the card itself. i have a bunk card as a result of a friend turning off the camera while it was writing image data to it.
pulling the card out while the camera is not accessing it shouldn't hurt anything.
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05/14/2006 10:17:43 AM · #6 |
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05/14/2006 10:46:30 AM · #7 |
As Louis posted, there are good recovery programs out there. There are even a few free ones.
If you lost 40 images, it is doubtful that they weren't written; I don't think the D2X buffer is that big. What's more likely is that it was still writing when you removed the card, causing some files already wwritten to become invisible to the operating system. They are very likely recoverable if they are there.
Best practice is th make sure the buffer has cleared (activity light goes out), wait a couple seconds, and then turn off camera and swap cards. When inserting a new card, best practice is to format it in the camera when inserted (should only take a few seconds) or format them in camer after images are transferred. This helps to avoid files being writen in small blocks, which slows down writes and can complicate recovery when that's necesary.
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05/14/2006 11:23:06 AM · #8 |
Thanks for all the help. I am sure it was still writting to the card. I have learned a very valuable lesson.
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