John, Thanks for your reply.
What I mean by a lost DNG is a bit embarrassing: I took the card out of the camera, with 171 shots on it. I loaded them into my photo hard drive, removed the card, and then started a backup to a different hard drive. Then I went downstairs. Not being sufficiently cautious, I then erased the card (but did not reformat it). After dinner I went upstairs again, and was horrified to find my photo hard drive periodically clicking, but clearly comatose. The backup hadn’t begun. Aargh! The next day (on the advice of a friend who works with Macs for a living, and whose wife is a pro photog), I downloaded a utility ($99) to try to recover the contents of the card; a couple of free alternatives couldn’t find anything. It recovered intact, usable, like-new DNGs for about half of the shots; and for the other half there is only a low-rez JPG. In Lightroom, these show up as blank white, until the software gets around to filling the frame with the JPG. There are about a dozen shots that I’d really like to have in some form. If there’s no easier way, I’ll put my camera on a tripod in front of the monitor, and photograph the photos. Rick > On Oct 21, 2021, at 4:47 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know if there's anything turn-key that can do it (especially if > there's a problem with the DNG file). > What, precisely, do you mean by "the DNG file is lost, but the preview jpg is > still intact"? -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
