Erasing Photos from Compact Flash Card in DSLR camera
Jan 7, 2012 08:47:34 #
kschwegl wrote:
Reformatting the card after each use will NOT stop a card malfunction. Sxxx happens.
Agree...but why tempt fate
Jan 7, 2012 09:08:51 #
JohnnyRottenNJ
Loc: Northern New Jersey
Maybe just one last thought on formatting the memory cards. A comment was made that the cards can only be formatted about 1,000 times before they need to be replaced. I don't format the card every time I take pictures. I have been averaging over 10,000 photos per year. If I format the card say once per week, that means the memory card will only last a little more than 19 years. Who the hell will even keep the same camera that long??? This isn't like the old days of film photography. If you had an F1 Nikon or an A1 Canon, you had nowhere else to go, so it was conceivable that you might keep that camera for some years. That is like saying that LED's only last for about 100,000 hours. That is over 11 years being left on continuously.
Jan 7, 2012 11:46:31 #
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You are so right. In my case, I can pop the card out of the camera and slide it in the slot on my PC in a fraction of the time it takes to even remember where I put that cable.
Jan 7, 2012 15:43:57 #
Greg
Loc: Maryland
Retired 1sg wrote:
I thonk the point here is to always format your card after download...rookie mistake I made was NOT formating the card ever and did a local homecoming shoot and the CF card "malfunctioned" and most of the photos were were lost...costly lesson but a lesson none the less.
Apparently lesson not learned. nothing you did caused the card to fail. you cannot kill a flash card through normal functions. if you were a programmer there are ways to toast hardware through software, but that's the only way. when a card is ready to fail, its going to fail. nothing you can do about it.
Jan 7, 2012 16:05:19 #
On the subject of 'killing' flash cards/SD cards there is one thing that you must always do to prevent problems. Always, repeat always turn the camera off and if there is a card access light wait until it goes out before you remove the card. This applies whether you have just taken a photo or not. If the card is busy writing when you pop it then there is a distinct possibility that you will cause corruption. This may be as minor as a picture being incomplete or it may render the card unreadable.
Under normal conditions you will be able to re-format the card and all should be OK, although you will of course lose any pictures that were on the card. There is the possibility, remote though it may be, that if the card is actually performing housekeeping tasks at the time it is popped it could end up trashed.
We see this about 10 to 20 times a year with one of our big customers who has 10,000 hand-held computers. The users are told not to open them up but we have monitoring software that shows us some of them do, with the occasional end result of a trashed SD card.
Under normal conditions you will be able to re-format the card and all should be OK, although you will of course lose any pictures that were on the card. There is the possibility, remote though it may be, that if the card is actually performing housekeeping tasks at the time it is popped it could end up trashed.
We see this about 10 to 20 times a year with one of our big customers who has 10,000 hand-held computers. The users are told not to open them up but we have monitoring software that shows us some of them do, with the occasional end result of a trashed SD card.
Jan 7, 2012 19:11:19 #
Greg wrote:
quote=Retired 1sg I thonk the point here is to al... (show quote)
Yes, lesson learned...because since then I always format my card after download and it has not failed me since and yes this is the same card that "mal-functioned" the first time.
Jan 10, 2012 07:28:54 #
One Jughead wrote:
This is my first message in UHH, have been looking... (show quote)
Interesting... May have to research this a little
Jan 11, 2012 12:47:22 #
Thing 1: I absolutely use a card reader to download images from camera to PC. I'm taking no chances with misfire, surge, or USB cable fry ... as remote a possibility it may be ... to harm my camera in any way.
Let's see: damaged $20 card reader? who cares, toss it, buy another one.
Damaged Canon 7D: OMG! See my point?
Thing 2: Unless that shot you're about to delete is absolutely useless, dont delete it until you've checked it out on a full screen PC monitor. Creatively "see" every bit of that image to see if there isn't some treasure in it that cant be cropped into view ... The way a ray of light touches the water, a drop of water on a flower petal ...
If you accidentally shot an image of your knee while changing settings ok, sure, delete!
Happy shooting!
Let's see: damaged $20 card reader? who cares, toss it, buy another one.
Damaged Canon 7D: OMG! See my point?
Thing 2: Unless that shot you're about to delete is absolutely useless, dont delete it until you've checked it out on a full screen PC monitor. Creatively "see" every bit of that image to see if there isn't some treasure in it that cant be cropped into view ... The way a ray of light touches the water, a drop of water on a flower petal ...
If you accidentally shot an image of your knee while changing settings ok, sure, delete!
Happy shooting!
Jan 11, 2012 13:06:00 #
Hello Ann,
I agree 100% with what you have said.
However, I have some very nice images of knees! :)
I agree 100% with what you have said.
However, I have some very nice images of knees! :)
Jan 11, 2012 14:04:20 #
Jan 11, 2012 18:14:40 #
AVarley wrote:
HAHA! Yah, so do I!
Hmmmm....I'm thinking you both should post them 8-)
Jan 16, 2012 00:28:44 #
most important buy extra cards DON'T SO IT IN CAMERA
many will jump on me for saying that
reason better to see what you have on the pc or mac
people have lost the whole card of photos doing it in camera
do you have more then one battery if no than you are eating up battery time
what you see as a bad shot maybe the only shot you wont know it because you deleted in camera
one of ansel adames shot would have lost if he deleted it back then it was one of his best black and whites the tech wasn't up to part at the time
many will jump on me for saying that
reason better to see what you have on the pc or mac
people have lost the whole card of photos doing it in camera
do you have more then one battery if no than you are eating up battery time
what you see as a bad shot maybe the only shot you wont know it because you deleted in camera
one of ansel adames shot would have lost if he deleted it back then it was one of his best black and whites the tech wasn't up to part at the time
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