I'm very sorry to hear this, Rob. I wonder if you are seeing a similar issue to what I saw very early on. I shot some stuff and returning home I couldn't unload my card because it couldn't be read in my Mac. The Mac unmounted the card shortly after insertion saying it had damaged formating. And I couldn't convince the Disk Utility to repair it either.
Can you see the card content when inserted into the K-3? What I determined was that I had failed to reformat the SD card immediately after purchase. After reformating (in-camera) that card and another of the same type that I purchased later I have not had any further problems after thousands of frames taken. After this incident I did switch the K-3 to dual (ie redundant) write mode and I always have two cards inserted. I wasn't going to take any more chances. :-( BTW, sadly I lost the content of that "damaged formating" card. I could see the images when the card was in the K-3 but nothing I did allowed me to extract that data, even over a USB cable. I was sorely pissed off. Something I never tried doing was to mount the card under Windows and use format repair utilities on it. I regret failing to try that but it didn't occur to me at the time. I hope you have better luck. On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> wrote: > Well I'm just about toast if my card recovery doesn't go well, I shot > a show last night, a fairly important one in fact and of three card > used in the K3 only one is readable. The one card is a month or two > old and the others I have had for a while and operated without a > problem. All cards were formatted in camera before the gig so should > be error free. > > I have the K3 set up to cascade from card 1 to 2 and when card two was > full I replaced card 1 with an empty card and that's the only one that > I can read. All 32 GB cards so 64GB of images are lost in the ether > currently, feeling a bit ill and somewhat less than complimentary > about the reliability of the K3 :( > > -- > Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
