It's an omen... -- Bruce
Thursday, February 4, 2010, 2:31:58 AM, you wrote: LC> A friend asked me to photograph a dance class he was teaching tonight. LC> The view through my K100 was horrible, when I got home I tried to LC> clean the viewfinder but it seems to have some sort of nasty film on LC> the back glass of the eyepiece. Either that, or something was eating LC> at some anti reflective coating (is there one?) on it. LC> I tried cleaning it with lens cleaning solution, but that did no good LC> whatsoever. This, mind you, is not the camera that is missing the LC> rubber eyecup. LC> I haven't tried cleaning it with serious solvents, like berryman's B12 LC> chemtool. I suspect that would cause more harm than good. LC> After class, Ted was copying my raw files off my SD card and something LC> went wrong with the transfer of the files from the K20. LC> Some weird files showed up on it: LC> ls: USBC\033␀␀␀.␀€␀: File name too long LC> total 384 LC> -rwxrwxrwx 1 lrc staff 4096 Feb 3 22:44 ._.Trashes LC> drwxrwxrwx 1 lrc staff 32768 Feb 3 22:44 .Spotlight-V100 LC> drwxrwxrwx@ 1 lrc staff 32768 Feb 4 01:17 .Trashes LC> drwxrwxrwx 1 lrc staff 65536 Feb 4 01:17 . LC> drwxrwxrwx 1 lrc staff 32768 Feb 4 01:18 .fseventsd LC> drwxrwxrwt@ 8 root admin 272 Feb 4 01:20 .. LC> Fortunately a bit of research found a program called photorec which LC> seems to be recovering the data. LC> -- LC> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
