Re: SD woes
Rick, I think Godfrey may well be on to the problem. The card contacts in the camera may be a bit grimy. Plastering an SS card with one of those electronic cleaning agents (Like Spanjaard LektroKleen) & putting it in and out a few times may help. I have solved USB contact problems like that. Alan C On 04-Sep-22 09:23 PM, Rick Womer wrote: Progress so far: - Tested all 4 SD cards. One occasionally lost its connection to the camera when I wiggled it, and another seemed to fit loosely in the slot and its connection seemed unreliable. I threw them away and ordered 4 new cards from B Rick On Sep 4, 2022, at 12:58 PM, John Francis wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2022 at 11:01:30AM -0400, Rick Womer wrote: Last spring we took a walk in Morris Arboretum, where the spring blossoms offered lots of photographic fodder. Alas, when I got home, the card had thumbnail JPGs on it, but no DNG files. As usual I erased the card (SanDisk Extreme Pro) in the camera after transferring the files to my computer. Last week we toured Winterthur, a beautiful DuPont estate about an hour away. Again I took about a hundred photos. When i put the SD card into the reader, I got a screen full of thumbnails from Winterthur and the flea market in the parik a couple of weeks ago, all stirred together (even though the card had been erased). No DNGs. I have four SD cards, of which three were indistinguishable until I numbered them yesterday. I checked each of them with the Mac Disk Utility, and they all passed. Any ideas apart from buying a new set of cards? Is there any way to distinguish a card failure from a camera failure? Rick The most obvious reason for a perfectly readable card to contain only JPGs, no DNGs, is that the camera has somehow got set to only write JPGs. I assume you checked that, but ... (Or, depending on which camera body you have, to write JPGs to one card, and DNGs to a different card) -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: SD woes
Progress so far: - Tested all 4 SD cards. One occasionally lost its connection to the camera when I wiggled it, and another seemed to fit loosely in the slot and its connection seemed unreliable. I threw them away and ordered 4 new cards from B Rick > On Sep 4, 2022, at 12:58 PM, John Francis wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 04, 2022 at 11:01:30AM -0400, Rick Womer wrote: >> Last spring we took a walk in Morris Arboretum, where the spring blossoms >> offered lots of photographic fodder. Alas, when I got home, the card had >> thumbnail JPGs on it, but no DNG files. As usual I erased the card (SanDisk >> Extreme Pro) in the camera after transferring the files to my computer. >> >> Last week we toured Winterthur, a beautiful DuPont estate about an hour >> away. Again I took about a hundred photos. When i put the SD card into the >> reader, I got a screen full of thumbnails from Winterthur and the flea >> market in the parik a couple of weeks ago, all stirred together (even though >> the card had been erased). No DNGs. >> >> I have four SD cards, of which three were indistinguishable until I numbered >> them yesterday. I checked each of them with the Mac Disk Utility, and they >> all passed. >> >> Any ideas apart from buying a new set of cards? Is there any way to >> distinguish a card failure from a camera failure? >> >> Rick > > The most obvious reason for a perfectly readable card to contain only JPGs, > no DNGs, is that the camera has somehow got set to only write JPGs. I assume > you checked that, but ... > (Or, depending on which camera body you have, to write JPGs to one card, and > DNGs to a different card) > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: SD woes
On Sun, Sep 04, 2022 at 11:01:30AM -0400, Rick Womer wrote: > Last spring we took a walk in Morris Arboretum, where the spring blossoms > offered lots of photographic fodder. Alas, when I got home, the card had > thumbnail JPGs on it, but no DNG files. As usual I erased the card (SanDisk > Extreme Pro) in the camera after transferring the files to my computer. > > Last week we toured Winterthur, a beautiful DuPont estate about an hour away. > Again I took about a hundred photos. When i put the SD card into the reader, > I got a screen full of thumbnails from Winterthur and the flea market in the > parik a couple of weeks ago, all stirred together (even though the card had > been erased). No DNGs. > > I have four SD cards, of which three were indistinguishable until I numbered > them yesterday. I checked each of them with the Mac Disk Utility, and they > all passed. > > Any ideas apart from buying a new set of cards? Is there any way to > distinguish a card failure from a camera failure? > > Rick The most obvious reason for a perfectly readable card to contain only JPGs, no DNGs, is that the camera has somehow got set to only write JPGs. I assume you checked that, but ... (Or, depending on which camera body you have, to write JPGs to one card, and DNGs to a different card) -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: SD woes
Doublecheck camera settings to make sure nothing was inadvertently changed? -p On 9/4/2022 10:01 AM, Rick Womer wrote: Last spring we took a walk in Morris Arboretum, where the spring blossoms offered lots of photographic fodder. Alas, when I got home, the card had thumbnail JPGs on it, but no DNG files. As usual I erased the card (SanDisk Extreme Pro) in the camera after transferring the files to my computer. Last week we toured Winterthur, a beautiful DuPont estate about an hour away. Again I took about a hundred photos. When i put the SD card into the reader, I got a screen full of thumbnails from Winterthur and the flea market in the parik a couple of weeks ago, all stirred together (even though the card had been erased). No DNGs. I have four SD cards, of which three were indistinguishable until I numbered them yesterday. I checked each of them with the Mac Disk Utility, and they all passed. Any ideas apart from buying a new set of cards? Is there any way to distinguish a card failure from a camera failure? Rick -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Paul Sorenson Studio1941 Sooner or later "different" scares people. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: SD woes
Mike, Three of my four cards were indistinguishable, until I numbered them yesterday. Methinks I will waste some electrons today shooting on each of the cards to see if one is faulty. Rick > On Sep 4, 2022, at 11:04 AM, mike wilson wrote: > > >> On 04/09/2022 16:01 Rick Womer wrote: >> >> >> Last spring we took a walk in Morris Arboretum, where the spring blossoms >> offered lots of photographic fodder. Alas, when I got home, the card had >> thumbnail JPGs on it, but no DNG files. As usual I erased the card (SanDisk >> Extreme Pro) in the camera after transferring the files to my computer. >> >> Last week we toured Winterthur, a beautiful DuPont estate about an hour >> away. Again I took about a hundred photos. When i put the SD card into the >> reader, I got a screen full of thumbnails from Winterthur and the flea >> market in the parik a couple of weeks ago, all stirred together (even though >> the card had been erased). No DNGs. >> >> I have four SD cards, of which three were indistinguishable until I numbered >> them yesterday. I checked each of them with the Mac Disk Utility, and they >> all passed. >> >> Any ideas apart from buying a new set of cards? Is there any way to >> distinguish a card failure from a camera failure? >> >> Rick > > Try another card? > >> >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
SD woes
Last spring we took a walk in Morris Arboretum, where the spring blossoms offered lots of photographic fodder. Alas, when I got home, the card had thumbnail JPGs on it, but no DNG files. As usual I erased the card (SanDisk Extreme Pro) in the camera after transferring the files to my computer. Last week we toured Winterthur, a beautiful DuPont estate about an hour away. Again I took about a hundred photos. When i put the SD card into the reader, I got a screen full of thumbnails from Winterthur and the flea market in the parik a couple of weeks ago, all stirred together (even though the card had been erased). No DNGs. I have four SD cards, of which three were indistinguishable until I numbered them yesterday. I checked each of them with the Mac Disk Utility, and they all passed. Any ideas apart from buying a new set of cards? Is there any way to distinguish a card failure from a camera failure? Rick -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.