On 5/27/2012 2:36 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote:
Yesterday I was trying to catch a few shots of my guy in action at the
state division track meet. I had my trusty k-5 plus 50-135 combo. I
had just reformatted the sd card, and took some pics, just to chimp.
So far, so good. The race started -- the one mile event -- and I shot
off a burst as the runners came past me. Since they have to travel
another 400 meters before they come around again, I took the
opportunity to peek at what I got... only the previews weren't yet
available. OK, I wait.... but the little red light stayed on... and
wouldn't go off... and now here the runners come again (66 seconds
later).... crap, there they go, and still my camera is hung up. No
shooting, no previews, just a little red light. I turn off the
camera. Red light remains, and on the top lcd screen, the "image
remaining" count still shows, approx 216 shots left. Then, I forget
exactly what I did -- probably turned it off& on, swore at it a few
times, and cheered for my runner -- but in the end, "memory card
error" on the back screen, and a remaining image count now at "0".
And then the race was over.
I've never had a memory card fail on me this way... it was traumatic!
I think it's just the card -- I popped another one in, and there were
no other problems. Does this behavior fit the profile of sd card
failures you've known? How much worse do you think I made the
situation with my frantic button-pushing? ;)
Thanks,
-c
I've never had a card fail that way, I've had the case crack and the
write protect tab fall out, (why the heck do we have a feature that
first appeared on floppy disks, and wasn't such a good idea then still
on a solid state memory device).
It sounds like a reasonable error message. The camera cannot access the
card, so of course the camera will report that there is space for 0
images. That doesn't rule out that the read/write device in the camera
isn't defective and somehow damaged the card, but it seems much more
likely that the card simply died. Like all electronics heat stress will
eventually kill it. Sandisk claims a MTBF of 1,000,000 hours, I don't
know what brand you use, I could find a number for Sandisk, but that's
an arithmetic average, so a card could die at any time, it just has the
probability of lasting about 114 years, (if I did the math correctly).
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Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthily search.
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