Yes, I thought about deleting some files, but I didn't have much time. I ended up shooting about 60 frames at the gallery. If the files on the card were really important, I would have just deleted some and saved the rest.. You're right, however. I should have had one more card in my pocket. It would have been a Sandisk btw. Paul On Dec 16, 2006, at 10:27 PM, J. C. O'Connell wrote:
> I think you need to always carry one more card > than you need too just in case no matter what > brand card you choose to use. Its not good > to be erasing photos you dont want to erase > EVER of course. > > Why did you have to reformat the "full" > card instead of just deleting the files > you didn't want to make space and keeping the files you > did? > > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Paul Stenquist > Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 10:18 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: OT: Transcend Card Failure > > > I've had my first card failure in three years of shooting digital. I > went out to a gallery tonight that has shown my work a couple of times. > They had someone else's show opening, and I wanted to suck up and shoot > some pics for them. I left with a full card in my camera that included > some walkaround pics from this afternoon and a lot of snaps of Grace. I > took that card out and inserted a Transcend 2 gig, 150X that has been > in the card holder in the battery grip. It had some previous work on > it, so I went to format it. The formatting failed repeatedly. Wouldn't > do it. So I had to reinsert the card that was full and format it. I > hadn't downloaded the shots that were on it. There were a few good ones > that I wanted. But I had to shoot this opening. In any case, it's a > failure for a Transcend card. I'm going back to Sandisk. The bargain > Transcend cards are far more expensive if they are failure prone. One > time is one time too many. > Paul > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
