After analyzing all the cards fairly thoroughly it appears that the card in slot 1 wasn't written to at all in that session and the card in slot 2 was written to but became corrupt through the shoot. The spare card in the grip was already previously formatted (in the same camera but earlier) and worked fine.
I don't check much during a shoot, just a little chimping at the outset to ensure that I'm not clipping highlights. I have the rear screen turned off and the top screen illumination controlled by the RAW button, so I don't keep an eagle eye on the top panel, I did just expect it to work stupidly. It was dire lighting last night too, I shot the whole show at ISO8000 with the lenses open to f2.8 and barely made 1/100s for the most part, reasonable results IMO considering the lighting but as good as perfect for what was needed by the producers. So all good in the end, had me more than a little stressed though as it was a cornerstone shoot. Thanks for the feedback. Cheers, On 3 March 2014 13:31, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 02/03/2014 7:39 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >>> >>> I only had a single brand new SanDisk 32Gig 45mb/s Extreme (like >>> Rob's) to start with, which is the one that experienced this problem. >>> I bought a second identical one, formatted both in camera, and have >>> been using them together without a hitch since. I wasn't about to toss >>> the card considering the price and that it was likely only a soft >>> formatting issue of some kind. But by enabling dual-write I figured I >>> was safe to continue going to see what would happen. >>> >> >> The other dumb question, of course, is can the files be transferred by >> plugging the camera directly into a computer? > > I tried that. The Mac saw the exact same bad format and did the same > unmount fail. To the computer, the K-3 on a USB cable is simply a card > reader. Sadly. > > -- > -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. -- 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.
