2Gb
Compact Flash card which failed spectacularly losing some 300
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This
is where the photo-fest takes a nose dive. Basically two days worth
of shots based in some of Scotlands finest scenery were lost when
the new flash card destroyed itself near Glenfinnan. The 2Gb card
was only a few weeks old and purchased as a spare for the well used
Hitachi Microdrive which has proved reliable. Because
the F828 camera was being so reliable I fell into the "eggs
in one basket" trap - frustrating as I was carring two spare
smaller cameras which I didn't use although with hindsight could
have done to give some more integrity.. |
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I have also since discovered the portable back-up devices for carrying
on trips ( DigiDock and Phototainer), which is really what I wanted
when I bought the second flash card.
Amongst the lessons learnt is that with digital you need to have
a regular back up, - minimum daily to avoid these sort of failures,
and also big drives are a bad idea as you can lose a huge amount
of data.
That having been said it is surprising how catastrophic the data
failure was on this card, which had been in the camera for two days,
and properly stored in a CF/Memory card container when not being
used. There were about 300 shots on the camera when the card failed
with no warning - power was fine.
Three data recovery companies have failed to recover anything from
the card which will not even mount as a drive in a PC or other device. |
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