You know, you could have set the protect bit on the exposures that you wanted to keep then used "Delete All" to recover the rest of the space for shooting. That said, it's wise to always carry spares. I usually carry a card wallet with six card in it.
You can get a defective with any brand, of course. G On Dec 16, 2006, at 7:40 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > 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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
