8 Tips for Protecting a Digital Camera's Memory Card

8 Tips for Protecting a Digital Camera's Memory Card

It's Monday evening, you've made it through the first day back into
your routine after a much needed and memorable vacation. You pull out
the memory card from your digital camera thinking you'll download the
photographs that record the spectacular sights, reunions with seldom
seen loved ones, and memorable events that you experienced in the
previous days.

But then the unthinkable happens ...


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Info Dude wrote:
8 Tips for Protecting a Digital Camera's Memory Card

It's Monday evening, you've made it through the first day back into
your routine after a much needed and memorable vacation. You pull out
the memory card from your digital camera thinking you'll download the
photographs that record the spectacular sights, reunions with seldom
seen loved ones, and memorable events that you experienced in the
previous days.

But then the unthinkable happens ...


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http://www.3min-reports.com/8-tips.html


One of the worst articles I ever read. For starters, the user should be
cautioned that likely nothing is lost, and should forbear any further
use of the card until the images are recovered. He should then be
directed to various sources for image recovery software.

I just retrieved 64 images from a Lexar II (40X) card using Lexar's own
software released in 2003 for Mac OSX. It worked, and these were RAW
images from a 5D, barely on Canon's drawing boards when Lexar released
this recovery software.

--
John McWilliams

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8 Tips for Protecting a Digital Camera's Memory Card

It's Monday evening, you've made it through the first day back into
your routine after a much needed and memorable vacation. You pull out
the memory card from your digital camera thinking you'll download the
photographs that record the spectacular sights, reunions with seldom
seen loved ones, and memorable events that you experienced in the
previous days.

But then the unthinkable happens ...


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http://www.3min-reports.com/8-tips.html


So I guess it's OK to expose them to static electricity jolts?

Bill Crocker

John McWilliams wrote:
Info Dude wrote:
8 Tips for Protecting a Digital Camera's Memory Card

It's Monday evening, you've made it through the first day back into
your routine after a much needed and memorable vacation. You pull out
the memory card from your digital camera thinking you'll download the
photographs that record the spectacular sights, reunions with seldom
seen loved ones, and memorable events that you experienced in the
previous days.

But then the unthinkable happens ...

The blind leading the blind. Not a good combination...

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It fails to mention getting greasy fingerprints or dirt on the exposed
contacts of SD and similar cards (one of the more common mistakes made
by the hamfisted). It doesn't cause immediate failure, but it can set
in train corrosion or oxidation that may eventually cause trouble.

Also suggesting "move" images to the PC is potentially dangerous. That
is normally done by the OS as a copy and then delete. You should never
delete anything until you absolutely have to!

Copy them to the PC and then verify. Meaning do a slideshow that opens
each one in turn. It is all too easy to have a failure mode where only
the headers (ie the IE directory preview images) are OK but the main
image is ruined. Only when you are sure that all the images on your PC
are good is it safe to delete the old card. And it makes sense if you
can to operate a grandfather, father, son media rotation so that you
only zap your oldest images.

Images on a PC hard disk are still not secure until they have been
backed up!

One of the worst articles I ever read. For starters, the user should be
cautioned that likely nothing is lost, and should forbear any further
use of the card until the images are recovered. He should then be
directed to various sources for image recovery software.

And never let recovery software modify the original media if you really
want to get the data back (no reputable recovery software should do
this - they should work on a copied binary image of the failed
removable media). That way you don't lost any of the clues that more
sophisticated techniques than basic file recovery can use.

I just retrieved 64 images from a Lexar II (40X) card using Lexar's own
software released in 2003 for Mac OSX. It worked, and these were RAW
images from a 5D, barely on Canon's drawing boards when Lexar released
this recovery software.

File recovery is always the first thing to try (although a certain well
known common consumer brand of generic file recovery does an
exceptionally bad job on digicam JPEG images with one particular header
format). Most dedicated image recovery programs will get back all but
the most damaged files (and some of them can still be fixed if cost is
no object).

Regards,
Martin Brown

On 8 Nov 2006 02:10:24 -0800, "Martin Brown"
wrote:

File recovery is always the first thing to try (although a certain well
known common consumer brand of generic file recovery does an
exceptionally bad job on digicam JPEG images with one particular header
format). Most dedicated image recovery programs will get back all but
the most damaged files (and some of them can still be fixed if cost is
no object).

Are you a politician?
Such statements are worse than useless, because they offer nothing
other than FUD.
If you want to make such accusations, be upfront and name names, and
tell *why* you believe the accusations.
--
Bill Funk
replace "g" with "a"

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:49:55 GMT, Info Dude
wrote:

8 Tips for Protecting a Digital Camera's Memory Card

It's Monday evening, you've made it through the first day back into
your routine after a much needed and memorable vacation. You pull out
the memory card from your digital camera thinking you'll download the
photographs that record the spectacular sights, reunions with seldom
seen loved ones, and memorable events that you experienced in the
previous days.

But then the unthinkable happens ...

Don't expose memory cards to direct sunlight?
We need a changing bag to load a card???
--
Bill Funk
replace "g" with "a"