I was shooting the local "Sand in the City" event today. About 100 shots in, the camera locked the shutter button and said the CF card needed to be formatted.
That was a minor shock. I've never had a problem with this equipment before. I wasn't to concerned because the camera has two card slots. It was configured to send raw to one card and full size jpegs to the other. So I had the full size jpegs as a backup. I replaced both of the cards and finished shooting with no more problems. Well, all's well that ends well. The card would mount on Windows but I got the same "format before using" message that the camera had reported. The good news is "PhotoRescue" got the files from the card to my hard drive. It couldn't render them, but I have a feeling that was because it couldn't recognize the Nikon NEF files. It did, however, extract the jpeg thumbnail from each file. Anyway, once the files were transferred to the hard drive, they opened fine in both Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom. They also converted to DNG without errors. So I think they should be fine. I kept the full size jpeg's anyway, just in case. I talked to my local camera store (where I bought the card) and the card has a lifetime replacement guarantee, so all is well. That's a relief. gs George Sinos -------------------- www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com George Sinos -------------------- www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com -- 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.
