Found out the hard way...

[advres]

Not to use cheap SD cards. Fudge. What do you use? Because I can't risk what happened today to happen ever again.

[uglymoney]

What happened? I lost a bunch of photos on my sandisk a couple months ago and recovered all most all of them with cardrecovery but free options exist. Just bumped the thread for you. Don't take any more pictures or write anything else on the card till you recover it because once they are corrupted you end up writing over parts of the old files.

Format your card on the puter, then on your camera before stacking a bunch of new photos on it. Pretty sure that was my mistake as the card is still working fine, though I just bought a new 16 gb class 10 sandisk.

[advres]

I have no idea what happened. We were shooting storyboard stills from video mode so I could look through the eye piece and move around. We were prepping for our shoot tomorrow. See what worked and what didn't before we did numerous bad takes tomorrow. Unfortunately, with 2 scenes of stills to go, I try to snap a picture and get an error message saying the card can't be read.

I tried numerous different trial versions of software that people on FM and other forums suggested and not one of them was able to see anything. I said F-it and tried to use disk utility to just chock it up as a loss and erase the thing. Disk Utility can't even erase and format it. It's fucked.

So now for tomorrow I am nervous and am going to insist we swap and dump cards every scene even though I have 16GB cards. It's gonna make it a pain for the editor but I'd rather be safe than sorry. Luckily I am confident in my field recorder so I won't have to swap out audio cards too...

[dumpy]

Mind sharing what brand of card?


For the small amount saved, cheap flash memory is never worth it (unless you really just don't care).

[Tippster]

I like fudge... Did you mean "fuck?"

[advres]

Mind sharing what brand of card?


For the small amount saved, cheap flash memory is never worth it (unless you really just don't care).

It was a 16GB Digital Film.

http://www.digitalfilmusa.com/hdmemo...osdhccard.aspx

[grapedrink]

something like 90% of the memory cards on ebay are counterfeit. go on any computer type site and see the reviews for memory cards, kingston, lexar, sandisk, etc.. always have great ratings. lesser known brands can sometimes have terrible ratings with lots of stories of lost data and card failures. memory cards are cheap, its not worth the risk to save $10, get a good brand from a good store.

[FJ62]

My Canon and my audio recorder both use SDHC cards. Over time, I've discovered that the best setup for both of them is a Class 6 Sandisk card. I usually go with the 16gb version, have about three of them. No complaints.

They cost a bit more than the Transcends and other cards, but--as you discovered--nothing sucks more than discovering you lost some great footage.