Worst Day Ever.......

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Bummer

That sux. Might the backup body have been useable?

Stick sd card in computer, run recuva... it might be abke to savd the files.

yeah, i'd work on the sd card like heather said. if you saw images on the back of your camera, then it was recorded. maybe not the last few... sd cards and such only have so many write states. after a while they do go bad. if your like me, and erase as you go, you only wear out a small section of it, so it may go bad faster.

i would say, try that, and buy a new SD card, i think that is the issue - not the camera.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

so sorry about your problem....
so glad about the hyperbole ;)

Unsettling for sure. Sorry.

Hopefully, as Mike suggests, it's the card rather than the camera.



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~ Bill
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It is usually Joseph that is the train safety guy, though Edward may do that too. (So is this a middle of the train track image dump thread?)

There are recovery programs that do a nice job getting images off a bad card. Heather mentioned one of them.

If you are like me, I assume the data on the card on every single shoot is worth more than the camera it is in. I suppose that this is overly optimistic in believing that one day of shooting might be worth more than both the body and lens but I believe it every time.....

Feeling much better. I got the files, and more importantly my camera back to working status-as you all mentioned the issue was the SD, and after trying it in every reader I have (which is oddly 10ish?) I finally got it to read. So, the day was saved. :)

So JC middle of the train tracks image dump thread. Why are there so many image dump threads anyway? Is someone hoping that an image dumper does more that scroll quickly to the bottom, take their dump and move on?

Things happen Alicia, I say don't let it ruin your day. It's a minor set back that has solutions, you can always go back to these newly discovered places and shoot again. Hopefully it's not your camera and just the card, get a new one and go back out there and take some new great photographs, it's gonna be the quickest way to put this behind you. Best of luck!

I totally misread the original post it seems. Did you not have another SD card with you and use the backup camera? Glad it was just a card causing the problem.

Glad you got your images. Re: image dump threads. I think the hope is that since Google indexes this forum, images might come up in a search after being dumped. :)

People like them. They want to share their images. I want to share my middle of the train track images but know I would get chastised so I do not. (We ALL know it does not actually increase sales potential.)

Which reminds me, gotta go put some finishing touches on my hyperbolistic ad.

What Marlene said.

Glad you got your files back! After losing two memory cards and having photos disappear forever I now retire my SD cards every two or three months and get a new one... All the back and forth between the camera and computer causes wear and tear on the card and it will eventually cease being able to be read.

the good thing is, they are cheap. i usually keep using my CF card, but usually update it with a new camera which is every few years. usually only because the file sizes increases.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

"People like them. They want to share their images."

What he said! i like to share my images and I like to see other images, conveniently gathered under a theme. I love image threads! ;-)

Also -- sorry for your tech scare, Alicia. Glad it worked out okay.

Nice! And great reminder to me that its time to swap out old sd card for a brand new one. I have one that is become a bit finicky!

I have only ever had one fail and I tend to be pretty prolific.

I do buy the high end fast and expensive cards though.

I buy them on sale whenever I can and once they are full, I back them up and put them away. I never reuse the cards besides deleting bad images for space. I have had cards with "never will have that chance again" images go bad, destroying what was on them (photo recovery didn't work). I've got a pile of crashed hard drives with good work still inside. Had I not decided to keep the full cards, I'd have nothing at all. The cards hold a lot more than dvds would, take up almost no space at all and if I get them on sale, they're pretty cheap (right now Costco has 3 16g SanDisc Extreme for $24).

Glad you were able to get the images out. Hope you safely backed them up immediately!

Yes Louise I did :) I have 2 3TB external Hard drives all of my raw files go on as soon as I pull them from cards.

@Greg, Yes I had my backup camera and got a few additional ones of the train tracks, and went back yesterday to the same places, as they are only about a 20 minute drive and got more shots-better skies and colors on the second day as a fantastic rainstorm had just finished and everything was popping. Also discovered a few additional things to shoot as my daughter was with me and I figured if I got the civic stuck I would have help pushing it out :)

Worse day ever would getting hit by a train. Or watching your Mom get hit by a train.

Yes Edward that would be much worse, me getting hit anyway-but I may not even be aware I was hit by a train and just keep shooting, not realizing anything has happened as I take photographs of the train-then haunt the area for eternity. No. I would not like to watch my mother get hit by a train either......really.

Honestly, It sucked at the time, and was quite frustrating, but I was prepared, I had a spare body, SD cards and all of that stuff I always carry around and wonder why I carry it. When I look at the photographs I thought I had lost, they really were not outstanding. Way too many half-focused hummingbirds, many shots with blown highlights, maybe 10% were even worth attempting to edit much less keep. When I am out shooting I see things that stand out to me, and take the shot, then often have to go back later because after looking at my original shot I build a mental plan of how I want to see the scene and go back later to try and create it.

That stinks, Alicia! I would be devastated...

I could name at least one thing worse than being hit by a train (I won't go with seeing mom hit by train though) - if you've the stomach for it - look up whipple procedure - worse than being hit by a train.

I think I am scared to look that up........

Once I put a backup microsd (for phone) in a camera and it worked okay at first but filled (too soon - about 1 gb). I got the pics off it but got to wondering if I'd formatted it. So I made sure it was formatted and this time got the full 4 gb.

Though it told me it was full - yours apparently didn't, so it may be moot.

It looks like I have somehow found the middle of the railroad tracks.



And Probably ignored the signs.....