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06/14/2004 10:26:18 AM · #1 |
| Hi All, I have an Olympus and I am having trouble reading images on the media card I have. Can you suggest a software or a service that will help me retrieve the pictures from the card? |
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06/14/2004 12:49:53 PM · #2 |
There are two programs I know of to recover pictures from a card:
Photo Rescue
I've used this one and it works very well. You can download a sample program and see if it will recover your data but then you have to buy it $29.95 (I think) to get a working version of the program. I used this to recover the pictures from a Compact Flash Card my son used to take pics of his vacation to California that somehow went wrong.
Here is another one:
P C Inspector
It is free. I've downloaded and installed it but haven't had reason to try it out yet. |
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06/14/2004 01:18:16 PM · #3 |
| Sammie, Thanks for the two programs. I downloaded PC inspector smart recovery from your second option and the program works fine on one of my cards and not on the one I am trying to recover from. So it looks like I have a bad connection on my second card. I think I will call the maker of the card and see if there is anything I can do to improve the connection. Thanks for the advise and the program I downloaded looks like it will be a life saver if i ever need it. Thanks again. |
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06/14/2004 01:32:57 PM · #4 |
| I'm glad you got the pictures from one of your cards - hope you can find a way to retrieve pictures from the other. Have you tried cleaning off the connection area? I've used canned air to blow out the little holes on the bottom of a Compact Flash card. I've also put a bit of rubbing alcohol on a lint free cloth and softly wiped off the metal connection bits on an xD card to clean them off. Sometimes, I think oils from your fingers get on those little metal bits. Also, I think dust can get into the little holes on the end of the Compact Flash cards. |
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06/14/2004 08:03:50 PM · #5 |
If the connection is the problem, and that's certainly a possibility, try reading the card in a different reader, or try downloading direct from the camera. You may get a good connection when using a different physical connector to plug into.
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06/14/2004 08:18:50 PM · #6 |
I've taken, perhaps, 25.000 shots with Sony's MemoryStick® and MemoryStickPro® without any problems ever.
Isn't there a CF card manufacturer capable of making a reliable CF card? Not only do they charge money for it...
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06/14/2004 08:26:18 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by zeuszen:
I've taken, perhaps, 25.000 shots with Sony's MemoryStick® and MemoryStickPro® without any problems ever.
Isn't there a CF card manufacturer capable of making a reliable CF card? Not only do they charge money for it... |
What would you call an unreliable CF card? Just out of curiosity... I've had one bad write with my Sandisk cards (ultra/ultra2) and never a corrupted read in over 15k downloads.
- chris
edit: i might also add i never download from the camera - always a firewire cf card reader, so they see plenty of insert/eject and "bouncing around" time.
Message edited by author 2004-06-14 20:27:20. |
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06/14/2004 08:28:03 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by zeuszen:
I've taken, perhaps, 25.000 shots with Sony's MemoryStick® and MemoryStickPro® without any problems ever.
Isn't there a CF card manufacturer capable of making a reliable CF card? Not only do they charge money for it... |
/me knocks on wood then says "I've shot somewhere in that vicinity as well, on 4 different cameras with 5 different brands of CF card (including a cheapo brand), and never had an issue either. I also regularly use CF cards to transfer data from puter to puter, up to 1GB at a time, and no problems there either. Heck sometimes i even install software from a CF card.
Not to say there's anything wrong with Memorystick (except for it's relative incompatibility with everything but sony products), I'm just saying that CF is pretty darn reliable too.
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06/14/2004 09:01:14 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by animes2k:
...What would you call an unreliable CF card?
...i might also add i never download from the camera - always a firewire cf card reader, so they see plenty of insert/eject and "bouncing around" time. |
One which produces 'unreadable files'.
I'm not the only one suffering from this symptom. Ellamay experiences this pretty much consistently.
Try to do a search on this issue. It's not exactly an exotic incident.
Message edited by author 2004-06-14 21:16:55.
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06/14/2004 09:16:20 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Pedro:
Originally posted by zeuszen:
I've taken, perhaps, 25.000 shots with Sony's MemoryStick® and MemoryStickPro® without any problems ever.
Isn't there a CF card manufacturer capable of making a reliable CF card? Not only do they charge money for it... |
/me knocks on wood then says "I've shot somewhere in that vicinity as well, on 4 different cameras with 5 different brands of CF card (including a cheapo brand), and never had an issue either. I also regularly use CF cards to transfer data from puter to puter, up to 1GB at a time, and no problems there either. Heck sometimes i even install software from a CF card.
Not to say there's anything wrong with Memorystick (except for it's relative incompatibility with everything but sony products), I'm just saying that CF is pretty darn reliable too.
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From what I've read, CF cards do have compatibility issues, with computer platforms, devices and cameras. Apparently, Nikon, pays more attention to these issues than other camera makers and also suggests certain cards for their cameras.
Many Sony products including MemoryStick® and -Pro are proprietary but darn compatible. I've used the heck out of them with different desktops and Powerbooks, and I consider them more reliable than an Estwing tool.
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06/14/2004 09:24:12 PM · #11 |
| Toshiba, Clarion, Samsung, Fujitsu are some companies using Memory Stick technology. |
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06/14/2004 10:29:58 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by zeuszen:
Originally posted by animes2k:
...What would you call an unreliable CF card?
...i might also add i never download from the camera - always a firewire cf card reader, so they see plenty of insert/eject and "bouncing around" time. |
One which produces 'unreadable files'.
It's not exactly an exotic incident. |
I didn't mean to imply that it was an exotic issue and I
understand that an unreliable card is one that has problems with files.
I was wondering how often a problem card produces problems,
how many cards out of however many a person has used is a problem card
and what brand of cards have the most problems?
I know a PJ who uses some BEAT UP Lexar and PNY cards with little or no issue
and as I mentioned, my own cards... I wouldn't buy something unless it's got
a decent warranty and a reputation for quality/speed. The 10D is slow anyway,
but the next body will be faster :)
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if a card continues to produce problems, return/exchange the card.
if a number of cards have a problem, investigate the devices the cards are
used in... if they're the same brand, switch it up? simple troubleshooting?
Message edited by author 2004-06-14 22:33:18. |
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06/14/2004 11:24:10 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by animes2k:
... I wouldn't buy something unless it's got
a decent warranty and a reputation for quality/speed...
edit:
if a card continues to produce problems, return/exchange the card.
if a number of cards have a problem, investigate the devices the cards are
used in... if they're the same brand, switch it up? simple troubleshooting? |
ScanDisk, Ultra II, Lexar, Lexar Pro of any size (well, 256/512 and 1GB) are the ones I have used. I agree, sticking with brand names also struck me as a reasonable thang. I am somewhat partial to Lexar, because Lexar, at least, acknowledges the problem and offers recovery.
In house I download straight to the computer without a reader. Friends who use readers suspect the readers. I suspect limited camera compatibility coupled with issues extending to all attachable devices.
If you have a card producing unreadable files coming out of a 10D on an eMac running a pristine 10.3.4, and it produces the same unreadable file on an iMac running 10.2 and a G4 PowerBook with 10.3.3, on a store reader connected to a PC, you are beginning to suspect the card.
Exchanging the card doesn't help much either. It may work fine for a month or two (or a day and a week), and wham! the new card produces unreadable files.
A different camera (I've seen this very recenctly with a Rebel and a 1D MII) makes no difference either.
Message edited by author 2004-06-14 23:25:07.
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06/15/2004 12:00:25 AM · #14 |
zeuszen,
I'm sorry to hear you've had such problems with your cards and guess I should count my blessings. I've got the same camera, have run my cards and those of my PJ acqaintence (via CF reader and direct) on a 1st Gen PB G4/400, multiple desktop G4s and my current G5 without worry. I hope you get SOMETHING sorted out so that you don't lose any more shots. |
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