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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 ... Read This Full Article At: http://www.3min-reports.com/8-tips.html |
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8 Tips for Protecting a Digital Camera's Memory Card
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 ... Read This Full Article At: 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
"Info Dude" wrote in message ... 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 ... Read This Full Article At: http://www.3min-reports.com/8-tips.html So I guess it's OK to expose them to static electricity jolts? Bill Crocker |
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8 Tips for Protecting a Digital Camera's Memory Card
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... Read This Full Article At: http://www.3min-reports.com/8-tips.html 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 |
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8 Tips for Protecting a Digital Camera's Memory Card
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" |
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8 Tips for Protecting a Digital Camera's Memory Card
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" |
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